Quotes by Aristotle
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
