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Aristotle Quotes

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“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.”

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

“To perceive is to suffer.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

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

“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.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”


“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

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

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”


“One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

“Wit is educated insolence.”

“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”

“Happiness is a state of activity.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

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

“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

“A friend is a second self.”

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”
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