Quotes By Aristotle

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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

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.