Aristotle Quotes
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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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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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You should never think without an image.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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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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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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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.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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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 intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.