Quotes By Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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

Well begun is half done.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.