Quotes By Aristotle

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Hope is a waking dream.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.