Aristotle Quotes
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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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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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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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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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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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He who hath many friends hath none.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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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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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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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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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.