Aristotle quotes

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need
friendship in addition.
Aristotle

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

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
Aristotle

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing
popular audiences.
Aristotle

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

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

Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his
goals.
Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.
Aristotle

All earthquakes and disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world.
Aristotle

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

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is
the worst of all.
Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

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

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of
it.
Aristotle

Nature abhors a vacuum.
Aristotle

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Aristotle

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