Aristotle Quotes
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
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.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
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.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
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
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
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.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
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.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
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.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
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know 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
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.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 proofs rest on premises.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
