Aristotle Quotes
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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You should never think without an image.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.