Quotes by Aristotle

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"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."

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

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

"He who hath many friends hath none."

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

"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."

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

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"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 one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

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

"Man is by nature a political animal."

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

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

"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

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

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

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

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

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."