Aristotle Quotes

A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle   

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
~ Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle   

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

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle 

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
~ Aristotle 

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
~ Aristotle 

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
~ Aristotle 

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
~ Aristotle 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle 

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
~ Aristotle 

We make war that we may live in peace.
~ Aristotle 

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
~ Aristotle 

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.
~ Aristotle 

Well begun is half done.
~ Aristotle 

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle 

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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~ Aristotle 

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
~ Aristotle 

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~ Aristotle 

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~ Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle 

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
~ Aristotle 

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
~ Aristotle 

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
~ Aristotle 

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
~ Aristotle 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle 

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
~ Aristotle 

We make war that we may live in peace.
~ Aristotle 

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
~ Aristotle 

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.
~ Aristotle 

Well begun is half done.
~ Aristotle 

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle 

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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~ Aristotle 

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
~ Aristotle 

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~ Aristotle 

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~ Aristotle 

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
~ Aristotle  

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
~ Aristotle 

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
~ Aristotle 

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~ Aristotle  

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

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~ Aristotle  

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
~ Aristotle  

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
~ Aristotle  

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~ Aristotle

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
~ Aristotle  

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

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
~ Aristotle  

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
~ Aristotle  

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

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~ Aristotle  

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
~ Aristotle   

Wit is educated insolence.
~ Aristotle  

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~ Aristotle 

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

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
~ Aristotle  

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
~ Aristotle  

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
~ Aristotle  

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
~ Aristotle  

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.
~ Aristotle  

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
~ Aristotle  

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~ Aristotle  

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle  

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
~ Aristotle  

Bad men are full of repentance.
~ Aristotle  

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~ Aristotle  

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
  ~ Aristotle 

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
~ Aristotle  

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
~ Aristotle 

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
~ Aristotle  

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
~ Aristotle  

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.
~ Aristotle  

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
~ Aristotle  

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
~ Aristotle  

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

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~ Aristotle  

Education is the best provision for old age.
~ Aristotle  

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

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.
~ Aristotle  

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle  

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.
~ Aristotle  

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle  

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.
~ Aristotle  

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.
~ Aristotle  

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle  

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
~ Aristotle  

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
~ Aristotle  

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~ Aristotle 

Change in all things is sweet.
~ Aristotle  

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
~ Aristotle