Quotes from Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

To perceive is to suffer.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

A friend is a second self.

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.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

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.

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.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.