Aristotle Quotes
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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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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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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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.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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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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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.