Aristotle Quotes

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Character is revealed through action.

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

A promise made must be a promise kept.

The only rule is there are no rules.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Hope is a waking dream.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

We are what we frequently do.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.