Quotes by Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
He who hath many friends hath none.
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.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Education is the best provision for old age.
