Aristotle Quotes
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.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
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.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
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.Aristotle
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.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
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.Aristotle
All proofs rest on premises.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle