Quotes By Aristotle

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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.