Aristotle Quotes
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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All communication must lead to change.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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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 bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.