Quotes By Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught 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.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Wit is educated insolence.

The law is reason, free from passion.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Well begun is half done.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.