Aristotle Quotes

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.