Aristotle Quotes

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Change in all things is sweet.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

The hand is the tool of tools.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

A friend is another I.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Beauty is the gift of God

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

There is honor in being a dog.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Those who act receive the prizes.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.