Quotes from Aristotle

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

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

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

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.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Change in all things is sweet.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.