Aristotle Quotes
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.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
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
To love someone is to identify with them.Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.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
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.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
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.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
The gods too are fond of a joke.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
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.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
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.Aristotle
