Famous Quotes / Aristotle
239 Quotations by Aristotle
- 141. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

- 142. Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

- 143. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

- 144. Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

- 145. So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one go ...

- 146. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insens ...

- 147. Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

- 148. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

- 149. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

- 150. The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential fa ...

- 151. The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

- 152. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, ...

- 153. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures no ...

- 154. The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

- 155. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

- 156. The end of labor is to gain leisure.

- 157. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- 158. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain f ...

- 159. The gods too are fond of a joke.

- 160. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
