Quotes from Aristotle

The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of creatures; and through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.

Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

A man is the origin of his action.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.