“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
— 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
“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once.”
— Aristotle
“To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.”
— Aristotle
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
— Aristotle
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
— Aristotle
“Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.”
— Aristotle
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.”
— Aristotle
“What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.”
— Aristotle
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.”
— Aristotle
“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.”
— Aristotle
“Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.”
— Aristotle
“Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may … meet with great misfortunes.”
— Aristotle
“We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.”
— Aristotle
“Man is by nature a civic animal.”
— Aristotle
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.”
— Aristotle
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
— Aristotle
“Quality is not an act. It is a habit.”
— Aristotle
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.”
— Aristotle
“The physician heals Nature makes well.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.”
— Aristotle
“All men by nature desire to know.”
— Aristotle
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
— Aristotle
“Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”
— Aristotle
“Hope is a waking dream.”
— Aristotle
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle