The gods too are fond of a joke.
ARISTOTLEHe 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.
More Aristotle Quotes
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
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To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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