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Aristotle Quotes About Friendship

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle Quotes About Life

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

More Quotes by Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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

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

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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

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