Aristotle Quotes and Quotations
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
All men by nature desire to know.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Hope is a waking dream.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Man is by nature a civic animal.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.