Aristotle Quotes
+34To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- Aristotle
+26All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle
+3Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
+3One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
- Aristotle
+3We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
+1The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
+1Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- Aristotle
+1Happiness is a sort of action.
- Aristotle
+1Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle
+1Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
- Aristotle
+1We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
+1The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle
+1The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- Aristotle
+1Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- Aristotle
+1All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Aristotle
+1The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
- Aristotle
+1Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle
+1A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
- Aristotle
+1Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Aristotle
+1One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
- Aristotle
+1Moral 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
+1The soul is characterised by these capacities: self-nutrition, sensation, thinking and movement.
- Aristotle
+1No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Aristotle
+1No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
+1It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle
+1The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
- Aristotle
+1I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
- Aristotle
+1The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
- Aristotle
+1Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
+1Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
- Aristotle
+1The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle
+1Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Aristotle
+1Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
- Aristotle
+1It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle
+1The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
+1All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle
+1We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
- Aristotle
+1The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
+1All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle
+1The goal of war is peace, of business,leisure.
- Aristotle
