Aristotle Quotes
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
To love someone is to identify with them.Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.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
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.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
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
