Quotes By Aristotle

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

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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

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

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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

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.

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

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

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

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.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Change in all things is sweet.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.