Aristotle Quotes

“Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.”

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

“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.”

“The physician heals, Nature makes well.”

“So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.”

“Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.”

“... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.”

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

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“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.”

“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”

“The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man”

“A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.”

“All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits”

“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.”

“Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.”

“All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.”

“It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.”

“It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.”

“Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.”

“Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.”

“But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?”

“The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.”

“The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.”