Aristotle Quotes
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
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.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
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.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
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.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
All proofs rest on premises.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.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
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.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
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.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
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.Aristotle
