The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life — knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle Quotes part 2
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of Heaven.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Depend upon yourself; make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
The law is reason free from passion.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
What one knows about the law must be distinguished from what one believes the law should be.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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