Quotes – Aristotle

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution"

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"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 god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"

"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms"

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

"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."

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

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."

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

"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

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

"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us"

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"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 acts."

"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."

"all he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth."

"When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so."

"The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them"

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

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"Not to get what you have your heart set on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all"

"Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune"

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge."

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

"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."