Quotes by Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

— Aristotle

Love

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

— Aristotle

Education

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

— Aristotle

Friendship

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

— Aristotle

Wisdom

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

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.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

Hope is a waking dream.

— Aristotle

Hope

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

— Aristotle

Courage

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

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

— Aristotle

Wisdom

A friend to all is a friend to none.

— Aristotle

Friendship

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

— Aristotle

Wisdom

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

— Aristotle

Life

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

— Aristotle

Happiness

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

— Aristotle

Success

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

— Aristotle

Life

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

— Aristotle

Friendship

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.

— Aristotle

Wisdom

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

— Aristotle

Wisdom