Aristotle Quotes

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Perception starts with the eye.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Worms are the intestines of the earth.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Men create the gods after their own images.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

All things are full of gods.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

We are what we continually do.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.