Aristotle quotes

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

— Aristotle

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. ”

— Aristotle

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

— 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

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

— Aristotle

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

— Aristotle

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ”

— Aristotle

“Education is the best provision for old age. ”

— Aristotle

“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ”

— Aristotle

“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. ”

— Aristotle

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

— 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

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“Nature does nothing in vain.”

— Aristotle

“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ”

— Aristotle

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ”

— Aristotle

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ”

— Aristotle

“The secret to humor is surprise. ”

— 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

“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

“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

“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

— Aristotle