Aristotle Quotes
To love someone is to identify with them.Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.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
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
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.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
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
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.Aristotle
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.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
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.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
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
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
