Aristotle Quotes

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

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

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

"Well begun is half done."

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

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

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

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

"The law is reason, free from passion."

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

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

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

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"Hope is a waking dream."

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

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

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

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."