Quotes by Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
The secret to humor is surprise.
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.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
