Quotes by Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Change in all things is sweet.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
We make war that we may live in peace.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Well begun is half done.
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
