Inspiring Quotes by Aristotle
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia energy, while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Evil draws men together.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one's material circumstances.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient, is no part of the polis, and must therefore be either a beast or a god.

You ought not to fear that over which you have no control.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Refraining from pleasure cultivates temperance, and it is through temperance that we can abstain from pleasure.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

Envy is pain at the good fortune of others.

Hope is a waking dream.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

Happiness is a state of activity.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

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

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Nature does nothing in vain.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Education is the best provision for old age.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.