Aristotle Quotes
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.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
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.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
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
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.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
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.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
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.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 in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.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
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.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
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.Aristotle
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.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
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
