Aristotle Quotes
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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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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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 honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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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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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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Everyone honors the wise.
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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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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
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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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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.