Τα πιο εμπνευσμένα αποφθέγματα του Αριστοτέλη που περιγράφουν τις ιδιότητες ενός ηγέτη

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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

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.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.