Aristotle Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Adventure is worthwhile.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

God has many names though He is only one Being.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Man is by nature a political animal.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.

All men by nature desire to know.

The physician heals Nature makes well.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

Human beings are by nature political animals

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet.

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.