Aristotle Quotes
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.Aristotle
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.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
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
All proofs rest on premises.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.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
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.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
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
