Aristotle Quotes

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

We make war that we may live in peace.

To perceive is to suffer.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

You are what you repeatedly do

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

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

What we expect, that we find.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.