Aristotle Quotes
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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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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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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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
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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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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Evils draw men together.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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You should never think without an image.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.