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Aristotle

Category: Greek Philosopher
Type: Philosopher
National: Greek

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state....

A friend to all is a friend to none....

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

A sense is what has the power of receiving into...

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is...

A true friend is one soul in two bodies....

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion...

All human actions have one or more of these seven...

All men by nature desire knowledge....

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind....

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly....

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to...

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;...

Bad men are full of repentance....

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive...

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them...

Change in all things is sweet....

Character may almost be called the most effective means of...

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence....

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is...

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are...

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of...

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by...

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

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

Education is the best provision for old age....

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not...

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and...

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We...

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in...

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil....

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze...

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does...

For though we love both the truth and our friends,...

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies....

Friendship is essentially a partnership....

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference....

Happiness depends upon ourselves....

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he...

He who hath many friends hath none....

He who is to be a good ruler must have...

He who is unable to live in society, or who...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...

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

Hope is a waking dream....

Hope is the dream of a waking man....

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him...

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are...

If one way be better than another, that you may...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than...

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

In making a speech one must study three points: first,...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better...

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are...

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and...

It is best to rise from life as from a...

It is clearly better that property should be private, but...

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the...

It is just that we should be grateful, not only...

It is not once nor twice but times without number...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be...

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims....

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while...

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies....

Man is by nature a political animal....

Man is naturally a political animal....

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a...

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence....

Men create gods after their own image, not only with...

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends....

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We...

Most people would rather give than get affection....

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me...

Nature does nothing in vain....

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness....

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of...

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when...

No one loves the man whom he fears....

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of...

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good,...

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends....

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work....

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry...

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming...

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities....

Quality is not an act, it is a habit....

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms....

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness,...

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures....

The aim of art is to represent not the outward...

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

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize...

The best friend is the man who in wishing me...

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the...

The end of labor is to gain leisure....

The energy of the mind is the essence of life....

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed...

The gods too are fond of a joke....

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to...

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity...

The law is reason, free from passion....

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later...

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by...

The most perfect political community is one in which the...

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

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

The secret to humor is surprise....

The soul never thinks without a picture....

The state is a creation of nature and man is...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the...

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by...

The whole is more than the sum of its parts....

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger,...

The worst form of inequality is to try to make...

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication....

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness....

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness....

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

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to...

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored...

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of...

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest...

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not...

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

We make war that we may live in peace....

We must no more ask whether the soul and body...

We praise a man who feels angry on the right...

Well begun is half done....

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

What it lies in our power to do, it lies...

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a...

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is...

Wit is educated insolence....

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he...

You will never do anything in this world without courage....

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope....