Aristotle Quotes
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
To love someone is to identify with them.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
