Aristotle Quotes
1. Happiness is activity. – Aristotle
2. Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle
3. Well begun is half done. – Aristotle
4. Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle
5. Nature does nothing in vain. – Aristotle
6. We cannot learn without pain. – Aristotle
7. Change in all things is sweet. – Aristotle
8. Bad men are full of repentance. – Aristotle
9. The gods too are fond of a joke. – Aristotle
10. The secret to humor is surprise. – Aristotle
11. The actuality of thought is life. – Aristotle
12. Through discipline comes freedom. – Aristotle
13. Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
14. Hope is the dream of a waking man. – Aristotle
15. All men by nature desire knowledge. – Aristotle
16. He who hath many friends hath none. – Aristotle
17. No one loves the man whom he fears. – Aristotle
18. A friend to all is a friend to none. – Aristotle
19. Man is by nature a political animal. – Aristotle
20. The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle
21. The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle
22. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. – Aristotle
23. We make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle
24. A true friend is one soul in two bodies – Aristotle
25. The soul never thinks without a picture. – Aristotle
26. Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle
27. Each man judges well the things he knows. – Aristotle
28. To love someone is to identify with them. – Aristotle
29. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. – Aristotle
30. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle
31. All human beings, by nature, desire to know. – Aristotle
32. Education is the best provision for old age. – Aristotle
33. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. – Aristotle
34. The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. – Aristotle
35. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
36. Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. – Aristotle
37. The energy of the mind is the essence of life. – Aristotle
38. Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. – Aristotle
39. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. – Aristotle
40. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. – Aristotle
41. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. – Aristotle
42. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle
43. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
44. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. – Aristotle
45. Most people would rather give than get affection. – Aristotle
46. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. – Aristotle
47. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. – Aristotle
48. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. – Aristotle
49. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle
50. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
51. We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. – Aristotle
52. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. – Aristotle
53. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. – Aristotle
54. Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. – Aristotle
55. Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
56. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. – Aristotle
57. No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. – Aristotle
58. 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. – Aristotle
59. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. – Aristotle
60. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
61. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. – Aristotle
62. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
63. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. – Aristotle
64. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. – Aristotle
65. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
66. Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. – Aristotle
67. A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state. – Aristotle
68. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristotle
69. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. – Aristotle
70. Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. – Aristotle
71. A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. – Aristotle
72. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. – Aristotle
73. No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. – Aristotle
74. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. – Aristotle
75. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. – Aristotle
76. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle
77. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle
78. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. – Aristotle
79. The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. – Aristotle
80. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. – Aristotle
81. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle
82. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle
83. Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. – Aristotle
84. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle
85. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. – Aristotle
86. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. – Aristotle
87. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle
88. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle
89. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. – Aristotle
90. Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. – Aristotle
91. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. – Aristotle
92. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle
93. Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. – Aristotle
94. The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle
95. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way. – Aristotle
96. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. – Aristotle
97. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. – Aristotle
98. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. – Aristotle
99. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. – Aristotle
100. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. – Aristotle