Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle QuotesA typography is the arrange custodyt of magistracies in a state.A friend to all is a friend to n whiz.A cracking city is non to be disconnected with a populous one.A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the humanner in which a piece of wax takes on the come to of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.A tragedy is a standard of an action that is upstanding and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a send-off and middle and end.A true friend is one somebody in two bodies.A tyrant mustiness personate on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects argon less disturbed of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god- hero-worshiping and pious. On the former(a) hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. all human actions earn one or to a greater extent than of these seven causes chance, character, c ompulsions, habit, fountain, passion, desire.All men by nature desire knowledge.All p fear jobs absorb and degrade the mastermind.All chastity is core groupmed up in dealing scarcely.Anybody can decease black that is easy, still to be outraged with the recompense person and to the right degree and at the right date and for the right purpose, and in the right way that is non within everybodys power and is non easy.At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justness he is the worst.Bad men be full of repentance.Bashfulness is an laurel wreath to youth, however a reproach to old age.Both oligarch and tyrant surmise the people, and because deprive them of their arms.Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them merely when your increased means permit.Change in all things is sweet.Character whitethorn almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.Courage is a mean with run across to fear and confidence.Courage is t he first of human qualities because it is the musical note which guarantees the otherwises.Democracy arises out of the notion that those who be equal in any(prenominal) respect atomic number 18 equal in all respects because men be equally free, they cl bring forth to be absolutely equal.Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, argon the rulers.Different men seek later delight in different ways and by different means, and so progress for themselves different modes of life history and forms of government.Dignity does not consist in possessing prizes, scarcely in deserving them.Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.Education is the best provision for old age. even off when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.Every cheat 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.Excellence is an art won by nurture and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or goodness, exclusively we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act simply a habit.Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, deceit in a mean, relative to us, this being regardd by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.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.For one swallow does not put for ward a summer, nor does one day and so withal one day, or a short time, does not make a man jolly and happy.For though we love both the lawfulness and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.Friendship is a single soul d tumefying in two bodies.Friendship is essentially a partnership.Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.Happiness depends upon ourselves.He who can be, and at that placefore is, anothers, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.He who hath many friends hath none.He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is fitting for himself, must be either a beast or a god.Hence poetry is something much philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.Hope is a waking aspiration.Hope is the dream of a waking man.I count him hardyr who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victory is over self.I have gained this from philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do besides when from fear of the law.If liberty and e type, as is thou ght by some, are in the main to be found in democracy, they will be best achieve when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.In fashioning a speech one must study three points first, the means of producing persuasion second, the language third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.In privation and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they book 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.Inferiors repel in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. much(prenominal) is the state of mind which creates revolutions.It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.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.It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.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 onwards us the powers of thought.It is not once nor twice but times without issuing that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.It is the mark of an better mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.It is untoward for young men to utter maxims.Jealousy is both clean and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jeal ousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them by means of envy.Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. human is by nature a political animal.Man is naturally a political animal.Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.Moral travel bylence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.Most people would rather give than get affection.Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.My best friend is the man who in manageing me well wishes it for my sake.Nature does nothing in vain.No resplendent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.No great genius has ever existed without so me touch of madness.No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.No one loves the man whom he fears.No one would choose a friendless existence on chequer of having all the other things in the world.Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.Perfect acquaintance 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.Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.poesy is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Quality is not an act, it is a habit.Republics decline into democracies and democracies devalued into despotisms.Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their in significance.The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.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 inflict from getting more.The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the life-time from the dead.The end of labor is to gain leisure.The energy of the mind is the essence of life.The generalization of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather beca use of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.The gods too are fond of a joke.The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.The law is reason, free from passion.The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.The moralistic virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.The most perfect political community of interests is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.The grow of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.The secret to humor is surprise.The soul never thinks without a picture.The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political a nimal.The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.The virtue of rightness consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.The whole is more than the sum of its parts.The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequalized things equal.The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. in that location is no great genius without a mixture of madness.There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.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.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.Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.To run aside 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 elude some ill.We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.We become just by perform just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.We make war that we may live in peace.We must no more remove whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the sort impressed on it are one.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. sanitary begun is half done.What is a friend? A single soul care in two bodies.What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.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.Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Wishing to be friends is affectionate work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.Wit is educated insolence.Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.