Quotes By Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

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.

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

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Man is by nature a political animal.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

We make war that we may live in peace.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Change in all things is sweet.