Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle