Quotes from Aristotle
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
- Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
- Aristotle
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
- Aristotle
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
- Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
- Aristotle
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
- Aristotle
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
- Aristotle
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
- Aristotle
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
- Aristotle
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
- Aristotle
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
- Aristotle