Aristotle Quotes
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Hope is a waking dream.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
They should rule who are able to rule best.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Bad men are full of repentance.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.