Quotes by Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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 everybodys power and is not easy.

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.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Persuasion is achieved by the speakers 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.

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.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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.

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.

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

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.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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