Aristotle Quotes
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.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
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.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
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.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 only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.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
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
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.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
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
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
All proofs rest on premises.Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.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
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
