Aristotle Quotes

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied wi...

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there’s too much corruption in the world

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are th...

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, wi...

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by perfo...

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insens...

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear railler...

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory ...

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at ...

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon me...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements a...

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themsel...

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make u...

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be a...

Human beings are by nature political animals

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind nex...

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, ...

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,...

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the bas...

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are grow...

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects...

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be b...

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to ...

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, pr...

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Ess...

Philosophy can make people sick.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by the...

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

The physician heals Nature makes well.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another ...

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special busi...

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear ...

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must b...

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the bas...

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being dete...

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We sho...

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Hope is a waking dream.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Adventure is worthwhile.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt f...

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.

And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predicat...

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the leas...

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

To perceive is to suffer.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.