Aristotle Quotes
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.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
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.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
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.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
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
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
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.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
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.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
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.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
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
