Aristotle quotes Country: greece

• Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ( Aristotle) [consciousness]
• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ( Aristotle) [danger/give/life]
• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. ( Aristotle) [character/class]
• Education is the best provision for old age. ( Aristotle) [education/provision/age]
• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ( Aristotle) [art/mankind/education/youth]
• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ( Aristotle)
• Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ( Aristotle) [youth/reproach/age]
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ( Aristotle) [roots/education]
• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ( Aristotle) [power/power]
• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ( Aristotle)
• 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. ( Aristotle) [more/life/art]
• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ( Aristotle) [education]
• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ( Aristotle) [property/desire/more/more]
• Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ( Aristotle) [life]
• 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. ( Aristotle) [objective/wisdom/money/start]
• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. ( Aristotle) [happiness/activity/excellence/excellence]
• Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. ( Aristotle)
• Without friends no one would choose to live. ( Aristotle)
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ( Aristotle)
• A true friend is one soul in two bodies. ( Aristotle)
• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ( Aristotle) [equality/treatment]
• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ( Aristotle) [form/inequality]
• To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ( Aristotle)
• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ( Aristotle) [life/comfort/weakness/life]
• Friendship is essentially a partnership. ( Aristotle)
• Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ( Aristotle)
• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ( Aristotle)
• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ( Aristotle) [genius]
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ( Aristotle) [excellence/art/training/virtue]
• Cruel is the strife of brothers. ( Aristotle)
• Happiness is activity. ( Aristotle) [happiness/activity]

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