People Quotes by Aristotle

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

— Aristotle

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

— Aristotle

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

— Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.

— Aristotle

People generally despise where they flatter

— Aristotle

Most people would rather get than give affection

— Aristotle

Philosophy can make people sick.

— Aristotle

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

— Aristotle

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

— Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

— Aristotle

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

— Aristotle

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

— Aristotle

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of…

— Aristotle

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their…

— Aristotle

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say…

— Aristotle

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner,…

— Aristotle

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness…

— Aristotle

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are…

— Aristotle

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily…

— Aristotle

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

— Aristotle

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled…

— Aristotle

All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any…

— Aristotle

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and…

— Aristotle

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power…

— Aristotle

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely…

— Aristotle

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade…

— Aristotle

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case…

— Aristotle

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their…

— Aristotle

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred…

— Aristotle

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the…

— Aristotle

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

— Aristotle

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

— Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

— Aristotle

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

— Aristotle

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

— Aristotle

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

— Aristotle