Aristotle quotes

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”

— Aristotle

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

— Aristotle

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ”

— Aristotle

“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

— Aristotle

“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”

— 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. ”

— Aristotle

“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ”

— Aristotle

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

— Aristotle

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

“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.”

— Aristotle

“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.”

— Aristotle

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

— Aristotle

“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”

— Aristotle

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

— Aristotle

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

— Aristotle

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

— Aristotle

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

— Aristotle

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

— Aristotle

“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

— Aristotle

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ”

— Aristotle

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

“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. ”

— Aristotle

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

— Aristotle

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”

— Aristotle

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”

— Aristotle

“Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.”

— Aristotle

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

— Aristotle

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ”

— Aristotle

“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”

— Aristotle

“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”

— Aristotle