Quotes from Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

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

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together';

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…