Quotes from Aristotle
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Aristotle
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
- Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
- Aristotle
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
- Aristotle
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
- Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
- Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.
- Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
- Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle