Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
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.
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
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
