Aristotle Quotes (367 Quotes)

We make war that we may live in peace.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means.

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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

All men by nature desire to know.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure

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.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.