Aristotle Quotes

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, Say nothing, and Be nothing.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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

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

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

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

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

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

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

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

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

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Hope is a waking dream.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Education is the best provision for old age.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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

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

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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

Wit is educated insolence.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

The secret to humor is surprise.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

To perceive is to suffer.

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

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

Nature does nothing uselessly.