Aristotle Quotes And Sayings

Democracy Is When The Indigent, And Not The Men Of Property, Are The Rulers.

What It Lies In Our Power To Do, It Lies In Our Power Not To Do.

The Secret To Humor Is Surprise.

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.

A Tyrant Must Put On The Appearance Of Uncommon Devotion To Religion. Subjects Are Less Apprehensive Of Illegal Treatment From A Ruler Whom They Consider God-fearing And Pious. On The Other Hand, They Do Less Easily Move Against Him, Believing That He Has The Gods On His Side.

Republics Decline Into Democracies And Democracies Degenerate Into Despotisms.

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.

We Make War That We May Live In Peace.

Friendship Is Essentially A Partnership.

No Excellent Soul Is Exempt From A Mixture Of Madness.

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.

Homer Has Taught All Other Poets The Art Of Telling Lies Skillfully.

The Soul Never Thinks Without A Picture.

My Best Friend Is The Man Who In Wishing Me Well Wishes It For My Sake.

Plato Is Dear To Me, But Dearer Still Is Truth.

It Is Best To Rise From Life As From A Banquet, Neither Thirsty Nor Drunken.

The Greatest Virtues Are Those Which Are Most Useful To Other Persons.

Thou Wilt Find Rest From Vain Fancies If Thou Doest Every Act In Life As Though It Were Thy Last.

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.

Youth Is Easily Deceived Because It Is Quick To Hope.

The Energy Of The Mind Is The Essence Of Life.

Piety Requires Us To Honor Truth Above Our Friends.

A Friend To All Is A Friend To None.

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.

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.

All Men By Nature Desire Knowledge.

Hence Poetry Is Something More Philosophic And Of Graver Import Than History, Since Its Statements Are Rather Of The Nature Of Universals, Whereas Those Of History Are Singulars.

Perfect Friendship Is The Friendship Of Men Who Are Good, And Alike In Excellence; For These Wish Well Alike To Each Other Qua Good, And They Are Good In Themselves.

Every Art And Every Inquiry, And Similarly Every Action And Choice, Is Thought To Aim At Some Good; And For This Reason The Good Has Rightly Been Declared To Be That At Which All Things Aim.

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.

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.

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.

The State Comes Into Existence For The Sake Of Life And Continues To Exist For The Sake Of Good Life.

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.

Rhetoric May Be Defined As The Faculty Of Observing In Any Given Case The Available Means Of Persuasion. This Is Not A Function Of Any Other Art.

Persuasion Is Achieved By The Speaker's Personal Character When The Speech Is So Spoken As To Make Us Think Him Credible. We Believe Good Men More Fully And More Readily Than Others: This Is True Generally Whatever The Question Is, And Absolutely True Where Exact Certainty Is Impossible And Opinions Are Divided.

Our Judgments When We Are Pleased And Friendly Are Not The Same As When We Are Pained And Hostile.

We Are Not Angry With People We Fear Or Respect, As Long As We Fear Or Respect Them; You Cannot Be Afraid Of A Person And Also At The Same Time Angry With Him.

In Constructing The Plot And Working It Out With The Proper Diction, The Poet Should Place The Scene, As Far As Possible, Before His Eyes. In This Way, Seeing Everything With The Utmost Vividness, As If He Were A Spectator Of The Action, He Will Discover What Is In Keeping With It, And Be Most Unlikely To Overlook Inconsistencies.

Some Animals Are Cunning And Evil-disposed, As The Fox; Others, As The Dog, Are Fierce, Friendly, And Fawning. Some Are Gentle And Easily Tamed, As The Elephant; Some Are Susceptible Of Shame, And Watchful, As The Goose. Some Are Jealous And Fond Of Ornament, As The Peacock.

The True And The Approximately True Are Apprehended By The Same Faculty; It May Also Be Noted That Men Have A Sufficient Natural Instinct For What Is True, And Usually Do Arrive At The Truth. Hence The Man Who Makes A Good Guess At Truth Is Likely To Make A Good Guess At Probabilities.

We Live In Deeds, Not Years; In Thoughts, Not Breaths; In Feelings, Not In Figures On A Dial. We Should Count Time By Heart Throbs. He Most Lives Who Thinks Most, Feels The Noblest, Acts The Best.

It Is Unbecoming For Young Men To Utter Maxims.

If Liberty And Equality, As Is Thought By Some, Are Chiefly To Be Found In Democracy, They Will Be Best Attained When All Persons Alike Share In Government To The Utmost.

Change In All Things Is Sweet.

There Is No Great Genius Without Some Touch Of Madness.

Without Friends No One Would Choose To Live, Though He Had All Other Goods.

Democracy Arises Out Of The Notion That Those Who Are Equal In Any Respect Are Equal In All Respects; Because Men Are Equally Free, They Claim To Be Absolutely Equal.

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.

Bashfulness Is An Ornament To Youth, But A Reproach To Old Age.