Quotes By Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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

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.

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.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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

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.

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

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.

We make war that we may live in peace.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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.

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