Aristotle Quotes

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

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

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.
- Aristotle

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

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property,
are the rulers.
- Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
- Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle

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

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth,
but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some,
are chiefly to be found in democracy,
they will be best attained when all persons alike share
in government to the utmost.
- Aristotle

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are
always aiming at something beyond political life itself,
power and glory, or happiness.
- Aristotle

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

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are
equal in any respect are equal in all respects;
because men are equally free,
they claim to be absolutely equal.
- Aristotle

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition
of having all the other things in the world.
- Aristotle

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
- Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle

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

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without
being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

Well begun is half done.
- Aristotle

Nature does nothing in vain.
- Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored
than they who produce them;
for these only gave them life,
those the art of living well.
- Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle

The law is reason, free from passion.
- Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and,
while it is true that the suicide braves death,
he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
- Aristotle

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

It is clearly better that property should be private,
but the use of it common; and the special business
of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
- Aristotle

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal,
and equals that they may be superior.
Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
- Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure,
but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society,
or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself,
must be either a beast or a god.
- Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
- Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- Aristotle

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means,
and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Aristotle

No one loves the man whom he fears.
- Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- Aristotle

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich,
because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- Aristotle

Those that know, do.
Those that understand, teach.
- Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest
every act in life as though it were thy last.
- Aristotle

He who can be, and therefore is, another's,
and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend,
but not to have, is a slave by nature.
- Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
- Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to
their children than fathers:
it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and
are more certain that they are their own.
- Aristotle

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