Aristotle Quotes
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
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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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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
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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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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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The probable is what usually happens.
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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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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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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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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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Character is revealed through action.
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The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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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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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.