Quotes from Aristotle

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

All men desire to know

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Beauty is the gift of God.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty