Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Aristotle quotes, Aristotle sayings, and Aristotle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of the nature of auxiliary means, and useful instrumentally.Aristotle
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life.Aristotle
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.Aristotle
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As health produces health, so does philosophical wisdom produce happiness. Wisdom is a part of virtue that once possessed makes a man happy.Aristotle
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.Aristotle
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All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
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No one loves the man whom he fears.Aristotle
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals. but, when separated from the law and justice, he is the worst of all.Aristotle
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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.Aristotle
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.Aristotle
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.Aristotle
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A friend to all is a friend to none.Aristotle
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.Aristotle
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.Aristotle
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The end of this science (ethics) is not knowledge but action.Aristotle
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Neither by nature. then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; nature gives us the capacity to receive them. and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.Aristotle
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Virtue is a state apt to exercise deliberate choice, being in the relative mean, determined by reason , and as a man of practical wisdom would determine...In respect of fears and confidence or boldness, the Mean state is Courage.Aristotle
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We make war that we may live in peace.Aristotle
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.Aristotle
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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.Aristotle
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.Aristotle
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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.Aristotle
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.Aristotle