All Aristotle Quotes
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Adversity
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider… Appearance
- The soul never thinks without a picture. Human Soul
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. Brainy
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. Arms
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave… Action
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Absorb
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Exclusive
- Change in all things is sweet. All
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aiming
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. Called
- Wit is educated insolence. Definitions
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Expresses
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. Decline
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. Dream
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Deceived
- All men by nature desire knowledge. All
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Character
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Dear
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Dead