Quotes from Aristotle

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Memory is the scribe of the soul

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

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... 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....

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

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.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.