56 Life Changing Aristotle Quotes

1. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
2. Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
3. Motivational, Quality, Habit The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
4. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
5. Education, Fruit, Bitter My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
6. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
7. Friendship, Best, Friend It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
8. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
9. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
10. 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.
11. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
12. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
13. Courage, Honor, Mind A friend to all is a friend to none.
14. A friend to all is a friend to none.
15. Friendship, Friend, None Hope is a waking dream.
16. Hope is a waking dream.
17. Hope, Dream, Waking The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
18. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
19. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
20. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
21. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
22. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
23. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
24. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
25. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
26. Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
27. 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.
28. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
29. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
30. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
31. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
32. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
33. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
34. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
35. 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.
36. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
37. 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.
38. Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
39. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
40. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
41. The end of labor is to gain leisure.
42. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
43. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
44. 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.
45. 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.
46. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
47. 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.
48. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
49. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
50. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
51. Wit is educated insolence.
52. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
53. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
54. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
55. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
56. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.