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A Friend To All Is A Friend To None.

Aristotle's Quotes On Friendship
Aristotle’s Quotes On Friendship

Excellence Is An Art Won By Training And Habituation. We Do Not Act Rightly Because We Have Virtue Or Excellence, But We Rather Have Those Because We Have Acted Rightly. We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence, Then, Is Not An Act But A Habit.

Aristotle's Quotes About Excellence
Aristotle’s Quotes About Excellence

Happiness Depends Upon Ourselves.

Aristotle's Quotes About Happiness
Aristotle’s Quotes About Happiness

My Best Friend Is The Man Who In Wishing Me Well Wishes It For My Sake.

Aristotle's Quotes On Best Friend
Aristotle’s Quotes On Best Friend

It Is The Mark Of An Educated Mind To Be Able To Entertain A Thought Without Accepting It.

Aristotle's Quotes About Educated Mind
Aristotle’s Quotes About Educated Mind

The Roots Of Education Are Bitter, But The Fruit Is Sweet.

Aristotle's Quotes About Education
Aristotle’s Quotes About Education

Love Is Composed Of A Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies.

Aristotle's Quotes On Love
Aristotle’s Quotes On Love

Pleasure In The Job Puts Perfection In The Work.

Aristotle's Quotes Explaining About Pleasure And Perfection In Job
Aristotle’s Quotes Explaining About Pleasure And Perfection In Job

Quality Is Not An Act, It Is A Habit.

Aristotle's Quotes About Quality
Aristotle’s Quotes About Quality

We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence, Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit.

Aristotle's Quotes On Excellence As Habit
Aristotle’s Quotes On Excellence As Habit

You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is The Greatest Quality Of The Mind Next To Honor.

Aristotle's Quotes and Sayings About Courage
Aristotle’s Quotes and Sayings About Courage

The Energy Of The Mind Is The Essence Of Life.

Aristotle's Quotes On Energy Of Mind
Aristotle’s Quotes On Energy Of Mind

Hope Is A Waking Dream.

Aristotle's Quotes And Sayings About Hope
Aristotle’s Quotes And Sayings About Hope

Good Habits Formed At Youth Make All The Difference.

Aristotle's Quotes About Good Habits
Aristotle’s Quotes About Good Habits

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.

Aristole's Quotes Explaining Angry
Aristole’s Quotes Explaining Angry

You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is The Greatest Quality Of The Mind Next To Honor.

– Aristotle

 

Whosoever Is Delighted In Solitude Is Either A Wild Beast Or A God.

– Aristotle

 

The Worst Form Of Inequality Is To Try To Make Unequal Things Equal.

– Aristotle

 

At His Best, Man Is The Noblest Of All Animals; Separated From Law And Justice He Is The Worst.

– Aristotle

 

 

Persuasion Is Achieved By The Speaker’s Personal Character When The Speech Is So Spoken As To Make Us Think Him Credible. We Believe Good Men More Fully And More Readily Than Others: This Is True Generally Whatever The Question Is, And Absolutely True Where Exact Certainty Is Impossible And Opinions Are Divided.

– Aristotle

 

In All Things Of Nature There Is Something Of The Marvelous.

– Aristotle

 

Democracy Is When The Indigent, And Not The Men Of Property, Are The Rulers.

– Aristotle

 

Bad Men Are Full Of Repentance.

– Aristotle

 

It Is Not Once Nor Twice But Times Without Number That The Same Ideas Make Their Appearance In The World.

– Aristotle

 

We Are Not Angry With People We Fear Or Respect, As Long As We Fear Or Respect Them; You Cannot

Be Afraid Of A Person And Also At The Same Time Angry With Him.

– Aristotle

 

The True And The Approximately True Are Apprehended By The Same Faculty; It May Also Be Noted That Men Have A Sufficient Natural Instinct For What Is True, And Usually Do Arrive At The Truth. Hence The Man Who Makes A Good Guess At Truth Is Likely To Make A Good Guess At Probabilities.

– Aristotle

 

Bashfulness Is An Ornament To Youth, But A Reproach To Old Age.

– Aristotle

 

The Ultimate Value Of Life Depends Upon Awareness And The Power Of Contemplation Rather Than

Upon Mere Survival.

– Aristotle

 

No Excellent Soul Is Exempt From A Mixture Of Madness.

– Aristotle

 

All Men By Nature Desire Knowledge.

– Aristotle

 

The Most Perfect Political Community Is One In Which The Middle Class Is In Control, And Outnumbers

Both Of The Other Classes.

– 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

 

I Count Him Braver Who Overcomes His Desires Than Him Who Conquers His Enemies; For The Hardest

Victory Is Over Self.

– Aristotle

 

Youth Is Easily Deceived Because It Is Quick To Hope.

– Aristotle

 

If One Way Be Better Than Another, That You May Be Sure Is Nature’s Way.

– Aristotle

 

Men Acquire A Particular Quality By Constantly Acting In A Particular Way.

– Aristotle

The Least Initial Deviation From The Truth Is Multiplied Later A Thousandfold.

– Aristotle

 

Some Kinds Of Animals Burrow In The Ground; Others Do Not. Some Animals Are Nocturnal, As The Owl

And The Bat; Others Use The Hours Of Daylight. There Are Tame Animals And Wild Animals. Man And

The Mule Are Always Tame; The Leopard And The Wolf Are Invariably Wild, And Others, As The

Elephant, Are Easily Tamed.

– Aristotle

 

Well Begun Is Half Done.

– Aristotle

 

Thou Wilt Find Rest From Vain Fancies If Thou Doest Every Act In Life As Though It Were Thy Last.

– Aristotle

 

 

The Soul Never Thinks Without A Picture.

– Aristotle

 

Homer Has Taught All Other Poets The Art Of Telling Lies Skillfully.

– Aristotle

 

Rhetoric May Be Defined As The Faculty Of Observing In Any Given Case The Available Means Of

Persuasion. This Is Not A Function Of Any Other Art.

– Aristotle

 

Man Is By Nature A Political Animal.

– Aristotle

 

Nature Does Nothing In Vain.

– Aristotle

 

The End Of Labor Is To Gain Leisure.

– Aristotle

 

What It Lies In Our Power To Do, It Lies In Our Power Not To Do.

– Aristotle

 

Dignity Does Not Consist In Possessing Honors, But In Deserving Them.

– Aristotle

 

Moral Excellence Comes About As A Result Of Habit. We Become Just By Doing Just Acts, Temperate By

Doing Temperate Acts, Brave By Doing Brave Acts.

– Aristotle

 

If Liberty And Equality, As Is Thought By Some, Are Chiefly To Be Found In Democracy, They Will Be Best

Attained When All Persons Alike Share In Government To The Utmost.

– Aristotle

 

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.

– 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

 

Whether If Soul Did Not Exist Time Would Exist Or Not, Is A Question That May Fairly Be Asked; For If

There Cannot Be Someone To Count There Cannot Be Anything That Can Be Counted, So That Evidently

There Cannot Be Number; For Number Is Either What Has Been, Or What Can Be, Counted.

– Aristotle

 

Mothers Are Fonder Than Fathers Of Their Children Because They Are More Certain They Are Their Own.

– Aristotle

 

Republics Decline Into Democracies And Democracies Degenerate Into Despotisms.

– Aristotle

 

The Aim Of The Wise Is Not To Secure Pleasure, But To Avoid Pain.

– Aristotle

 

The Greatest Virtues Are Those Which Are Most Useful To Other Persons.

– Aristotle

 

A Tyrant Must Put On The Appearance Of Uncommon Devotion To Religion. Subjects Are Less

Apprehensive Of Illegal Treatment From A Ruler Whom They Consider God-Fearing And Pious. On The

Other Hand, They Do Less Easily Move Against Him, Believing That He Has The Gods On His Side.

– Aristotle

 

Perfect Friendship 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.

– 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

 

Suffering Becomes Beautiful When Anyone Bears Great Calamities With Cheerfulness, Not Through

Insensibility But Through Greatness Of Mind.

– Aristotle

 

The Educated Differ From The Uneducated As Much As The Living From The Dead.

– Aristotle

 

The One Exclusive Sign Of Thorough Knowledge Is The Power Of Teaching.

– 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 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

 

A Great City Is Not To Be Confounded With A Populous One.

– Aristotle

 

He Who Is To Be A Good Ruler Must Have First Been Ruled.

– Aristotle

 

Our Judgments When We Are Pleased And Friendly Are Not The Same As When We Are Pained And

Hostile.

– Aristotle

 

 

Poetry Is Finer And More Philosophical Than History; For Poetry Expresses The Universal, And History

Only The Particular.

– Aristotle

 

The Ideal Man Bears The Accidents Of Life With Dignity And Grace, Making The Best Of Circumstances.

– Aristotle

 

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.

– Aristotle

 

We Live In Deeds, Not Years; In Thoughts, Not Breaths; In Feelings, Not In Figures On A Dial. We Should

Count Time By Heart Throbs. He Most Lives Who Thinks Most, Feels The Noblest, Acts The Best.

– Aristotle

 

Change In All Things Is Sweet.

– Aristotle

 

Education Is An Ornament In Prosperity And A Refuge In Adversity.

– Aristotle

 

The Secret To Humor Is Surprise.

– Aristotle

The Young Are Permanently In A State Resembling Intoxication.

– Aristotle

 

Wishing To Be Friends Is Quick Work, But Friendship Is A Slow Ripening Fruit.

– Aristotle

 

Some Animals Are Cunning And Evil-Disposed, As The Fox; Others, As The Dog, Are Fierce, Friendly, And

Fawning. Some Are Gentle And Easily Tamed, As The Elephant; Some Are Susceptible Of Shame, And

Watchful, As The Goose. Some Are Jealous And Fond Of Ornament, As The Peacock.

– Aristotle

 

The Duty Of Rhetoric Is To Deal With Such Matters As We Deliberate Upon Without Arts Or Systems To

Guide Us, In The Hearing Of Persons Who Cannot Take In At A Glance A Complicated Argument Or

Follow A Long Chain Of Reasoning.

– Aristotle

 

Courage Is The First Of Human Qualities Because It Is The Quality Which Guarantees The Others.

– Aristotle

 

The Aim Of Art Is To Represent Not The Outward Appearance Of Things, But Their Inward Significance.

– Aristotle

 

Democracy Arises Out Of The Notion That Those Who Are Equal In Any Respect Are Equal In All

Respects; Because Men Are Equally Free, They Claim To Be Absolutely Equal.

– Aristotle

 

Jealousy Is Both Reasonable And Belongs To Reasonable Men, While Envy Is Base And Belongs To The

Base, For The One Makes Himself Get Good Things By Jealousy, While The Other Does Not Allow His

Neighbour To Have Them Through Envy.

– 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

 

Man Is The Only Animal Capable Of Reasoning, Though Many Others Possess The Faculty Of Memory

And Instruction In Common With Him.

– Aristotle

 

Different Men Seek After Happiness In Different Ways And By Different Means, And So Make For

Themselves Different Modes Of Life And Forms Of Government.

– Aristotle

 

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.

– Aristotle

 

Long-Lived Persons Have One Or Two Lines Which Extend Through The Whole Hand; Short-Lived Persons

Have Two Lines Not Extending Through The Whole Hand.

– Aristotle

 

Fear Is Pain Arising From The Anticipation Of Evil.

– Aristotle

 

We Make War That We May Live In Peace.

– Aristotle

 

It Is Best To Rise From Life As From A Banquet, Neither Thirsty Nor Drunken.

– Aristotle

 

Of All The Varieties Of Virtues, Liberalism Is The Most Beloved.

– Aristotle

 

In Constructing The Plot And Working It Out With The Proper Diction, The Poet Should Place The Scene,

As Far As Possible, Before His Eyes. In This Way, Seeing Everything With The Utmost Vividness, As If He

Were A Spectator Of The Action, He Will Discover What Is In Keeping With It, And Be Most Unlikely To

Overlook Inconsistencies.

– Aristotle

 

All Paid Jobs Absorb And Degrade The Mind.

– Aristotle

 

Character May Almost Be Called The Most Effective Means Of Persuasion.

– Aristotle

 

Every Art 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.

– Aristotle

 

A Constitution Is The Arrangement Of Magistracies In A State.

– Aristotle

 

Without Friends No One Would Choose To Live, Though He Had All Other Goods.

– Aristotle

 

Men Create Gods After Their Own Image, Not Only With Regard To Their Form But With Regard To Their

Mode Of Life.

– Aristotle

 

He Who Can Be, And Therefore Is, Another’s, And He Who Participates In Reason Enough To Apprehend,

But Not To Have, Is A Slave By Nature.

– Aristotle

 

Plato Is Dear To Me, But Dearer Still Is Truth.

– Aristotle

 

Politicians Also Have No Leisure, Because They Are Always Aiming At Something Beyond Political Life

Itself, Power And Glory, Or Happiness.

– Aristotle

 

In Poverty And Other Misfortunes Of Life, True Friends Are A Sure Refuge. The Young They Keep 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.

– Aristotle

 

We Become Just By Performing Just Action, Temperate By Performing Temperate Actions, Brave By

Performing Brave Action.

– Aristotle

 

All Human Actions Have One Or More Of These Seven Causes: Chance, Nature, Compulsions, Habit,

Reason, Passion, Desire.

– Aristotle

 

It Is Unbecoming For Young Men To Utter Maxims.

– Aristotle

 

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.

– Aristotle

 

Inferiors Revolt In Order That They May Be Equal, And Equals That They May Be Superior. Such Is The

State Of Mind Which Creates Revolutions.

– Aristotle

 

 

There Is No Great Genius Without Some Touch Of Madness.

– Aristotle

 

Wit Is Educated Insolence.

– Aristotle

 

Friendship Is Essentially A Partnership.

– Aristotle

 

Probable Impossibilities Are To Be Preferred To Improbable Possibilities.

– Aristotle

 

Both Oligarch And Tyrant Mistrust The People, And Therefore Deprive Them Of Their Arms.

– 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

 

He Who Is Unable To Live In Society, Or Who Has No Need Because He Is Sufficient For Himself, Must Be

Either A Beast Or A God.

– Aristotle

 

 

 

In Making 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.

– Aristotle

 

There Was Never A Genius Without A Tincture Of Madness.

– Aristotle

 

Those That Know, Do. Those That Understand, Teach.

– Aristotle

 

Personal Beauty Is A Greater Recommendation Than Any Letter Of Reference.

– Aristotle

 

Even When Laws Have Been Written Down, They Ought Not Always To Remain Unaltered.

– Aristotle

 

No Notice Is Taken Of A Little Evil, But When It Increases It Strikes The Eye.

– 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

 

The Law Is Reason, Free From Passion.

– Aristotle

 

Hence Poetry Is Something More Philosophic And Of Graver Import Than History, Since Its Statements

Are Rather Of The Nature Of Universals, Whereas Those Of History Are Singulars.

– Aristotle

 

The Poet, Being An Imitator Like A Painter Or Any Other Artist, Must Of Necessity Imitate One Of Three

Objects – Things As They Were Or Are, Things As They Are Said Or Thought To Be, Or Things As They

Ought To Be. The Vehicle Of Expression Is Language – Either Current Terms Or, It May Be, Rare Words Or

Metaphors.

– Aristotle

 

Some Animals Utter A Loud Cry. Some Are Silent, And Others Have A Voice, Which In Some Cases May

Be Expressed By A Word; In Others, It Cannot. There Are Also Noisy Animals And Silent Animals, Musical

And Unmusical Kinds, But They Are Mostly Noisy About The Breeding Season.

– Aristotle

 

 

No One Loves The Man Whom He Fears.

– Aristotle

 

I Have Gained This From Philosophy: That I Do Without Being Commanded What Others Do Only From

Fear Of The Law.

– Aristotle

 

 

The State Comes Into Existence For The Sake Of Life And Continues To Exist For The Sake Of Good Life.

– Aristotle

 

The Eyes Of Some Persons Are Large, Others Small, And Others Of A Moderate Size; The Last-Mentioned

Are The Best. And Some Eyes Are Projecting, Some Deep-Set, And Some Moderate, And Those Which

Are Deep-Set Have The Most Acute Vision In All Animals; The Middle Position Is A Sign Of The Best

Disposition.

– Aristotle

 

Temperance Is A Mean With Regard To Pleasures.

– Aristotle

 

A Sense Is What Has The Power Of Receiving Into Itself The Sensible Forms Of Things Without The

Matter, In The Way In Which A Piece Of Wax Takes On The Impress Of A Signet-Ring Without The Iron Or

Gold.

– Aristotle

 

Piety Requires Us To Honor Truth Above Our Friends.

– 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

 

But If Nothing But Soul, Or In Soul Mind, Is Qualified To Count, It Is Impossible For There To Be Time

Unless There Is Soul, But Only That Of Which Time Is An Attribute, I.E. If Change Can Exist Without Soul.

– Aristotle

 

A Tragedy Is A Representation Of An Action That Is Whole And Complete And Of A Certain Magnitude. A

Whole Is What Has A Beginning And Middle And End.

– Aristotle

 

The Moral 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.

– Aristotle

 

Education Is The Best Provision For Old Age.

– Aristotle

 

Most People Would Rather Give Than Get Affection.

– Aristotle

 

The Whole Is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts.

– Aristotle

 

No One Would Choose A Friendless Existence On Condition Of Having All The Other Things In The

World.

– Aristotle

 

 

For Though We Love Both The Truth And Our Friends, Piety Requires Us To Honor The Truth First.

– Aristotle

 

Men Are Swayed More By Fear Than By Reverence.

– Aristotle

 

The Virtue Of Justice Consists In Moderation, As Regulated By Wisdom.

– Aristotle

 

Bring Your Desires Down To Your Present Means. Increase Them Only When Your Increased Means

Permit.

– Aristotle

 

The Generality Of Men Are Naturally Apt To Be Swayed By Fear Rather Than Reverence, And To Refrain

From Evil Rather Because Of The Punishment That It Brings Than Because Of Its Own Foulness.

– Aristotle

 

All Virtue Is Summed Up In Dealing Justly.

– Aristotle

 

A Statement Is Persuasive And Credible Either Because It Is Directly Self-Evident Or Because It Appears

To Be Proved From Other Statements That Are So.

– Aristotle

 

 

 

He Who Hath Many Friends Hath None.

– Aristotle

 

It Is Homer Who Has Chiefly Taught Other Poets The Art Of Telling Lies Skillfully.

– Aristotle

 

Therefore, The Good Of Man Must Be The End Of The Science Of Politics.

–  Aristotle

 

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 Lower From Getting More.

– Aristotle

 

To Attain Any Assured Knowledge About The Soul Is One Of The Most Difficult Things In The World.

– Aristotle

 

Courage Is A Mean With Regard To Fear And Confidence.

– Aristotle

 

Persuasion Is Clearly A Sort Of Demonstration, Since We Are Most Fully Persuaded When We Consider A

Thing To Have Been Demonstrated.

– Aristotle

 

 

Misfortune Shows Those Who Are Not Really Friends.

– Aristotle

 

The Gods Too Are Fond Of A Joke.

– Aristotle