Aristotle Quotes
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Character is revealed through action.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.