110+ Aristotle Quotes On Success, Happiness And Education

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived in the 4th century BC. He was a student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on a wide range of topics, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Aristotle on life, love, success.

Top 10 Aristotle Quotes

1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
2. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
3. Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
4. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
5. Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
6. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
7. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
8. There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, Say nothing, and Be nothing.
9. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
10. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle Image Quotes

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. — Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you! — Aristotle

The more you know, the more you know you don't know. — Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. — Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live. — Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle

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

Aristotle Short Quotes

• The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
• He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
• Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
• Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
• The end of labor is to gain leisure.
• Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle Quotes About Life

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition. — Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — 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

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

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. — Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Aristotle

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

The quality of life is determined by its activities. — 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

Aristotle Quotes About Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. — Aristotle

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much. — Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish. — Aristotle

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love. — Aristotle

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving. — Aristotle

No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle

To love someone is to identify with them. — Aristotle

Love is the cause of unity in all things. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Success

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. — Aristotle

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. — Aristotle

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. — Aristotle

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. — Aristotle

What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness. — Aristotle

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards. — Aristotle

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature. — Aristotle

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself. — Aristotle

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. — Aristotle

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. — Aristotle

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. — Aristotle

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. — Aristotle

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings. — 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

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse. — Aristotle

All human happiness and misery take the form of action. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Education

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. — Aristotle

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. — Aristotle

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Knowledge

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. — Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. — Aristotle

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. — Aristotle

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end. — Aristotle

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make. — Aristotle

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. — Aristotle

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously. — Aristotle

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Friendship

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you! — Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. — Aristotle

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle

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. — Aristotle

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. — Aristotle

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense. — 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

Aristotle Quotes About Society

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

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence. — Aristotle

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. — Aristotle

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. — Aristotle

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship. — Aristotle

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is. — Aristotle

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. — Aristotle

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Virtue

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

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude. — Aristotle

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul. — 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

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness. — Aristotle

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit. — Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for. — Aristotle

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Excellence

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — 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

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

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event. — Aristotle

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence. — Aristotle

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Logic

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. — Aristotle

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all. — Aristotle

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Reasoning

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy. — 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

The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. — Aristotle

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. — Aristotle

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion. — Aristotle

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. — Aristotle

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force. — Aristotle

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Ethics

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite. — Aristotle

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. — Aristotle

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. — Aristotle

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — Aristotle

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. — Aristotle

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. — Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Soul

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. — Aristotle

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them. — Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul. — Aristotle

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form. — Aristotle

Memory is the scribe of the soul. — Aristotle

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it. — 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

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul. — Aristotle

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Nature

Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for. — Aristotle

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. — Aristotle

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose — 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

Nature does nothing uselessly. — Aristotle

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. — Aristotle

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Friends

A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live. — Aristotle

He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. — Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us — Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes About Mind

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. — Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not! — Aristotle

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously. — Aristotle

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers. — 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

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless. — Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator. — Aristotle

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. — Aristotle

Aristotle Famous Quotes And Sayings

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. — Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle

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. — Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you! — Aristotle

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. — Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. — Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. — Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live. — Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose — Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle

Through discipline comes freedom. — Aristotle

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. — Aristotle

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. — Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. — Aristotle

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. — Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. — Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. — Aristotle

We can't learn without pain. — Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold — Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. — Aristotle

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it. — Aristotle

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. — Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer. — Aristotle

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. — Aristotle

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. — Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle

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

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. — Aristotle

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. — Aristotle

We are what we frequently do. — Aristotle

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few. — Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved. — Aristotle

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. — Aristotle

Life Lessons by Aristotle

1. Aristotle taught that the key to living a good life is to pursue virtue and excellence. He believed that by developing moral character and using reason, we can become better people and live a more fulfilling life.
2. Aristotle also believed that happiness is the ultimate goal of life, and that it can be achieved by living a life of moderation and balance. He argued that we should strive to find the golden mean between two extremes and avoid excess in all areas of life.
3. Finally, Aristotle believed that knowledge is power, and that through the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, we can gain insight into the world and ourselves. He encouraged us to use our reason to understand