Aristotle Quotes
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, with Socrates and Plato, laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
50. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
49. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
48. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
47. “Hope is a waking dream.”
46. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
45. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
44. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
43. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
42. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
41. “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
40. “To perceive is to suffer.”
39. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
38. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
37. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
36. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
35. “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
34. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
33. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
32. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
31. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
30. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
29. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
28. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
27. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
26. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
25. “I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
24. “Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
23. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
22. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
21. “Wit is educated insolence.”
20. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
19. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
18. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
17. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
16. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”
15. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
14. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
13. “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
12. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
11. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”
10. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
9. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
8. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
7. “Happiness is a state of activity.”
6. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
5. “We make war that we may live in peace.”
4. “The Law is Reason free from Passion.”
3. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
2. “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
1. “Nature does nothing uselessly.”
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