“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
– Aristotle
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
– Aristotle
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
– 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
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
– Aristotle
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
– Aristotle
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
– Aristotle
“Wit is educated insolence.”
– Aristotle
“The secret to humor is surprise.”
– Aristotle
“Hope is a waking dream.”
– Aristotle
“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
– Aristotle
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
– Aristotle
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
– Aristotle
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
– Aristotle
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
– Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
– Aristotle
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
– 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
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
– 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
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
– Aristotle
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
– Aristotle
“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”
– Aristotle
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
– 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
“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
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– 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
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
– Aristotle