Aristotle Quotes

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping

Through discipline comes freedom.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

We can't learn without pain.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.