Aristotle Quotes on Life, Education, Love & Democracy

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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

When you act courageously, consistently, you will become courageous, so begin today, your future depends on it.

To be the best you have to discover what action steps “the best” are currently taking, and then you have to out maneuver them. While they’re sleeping, you need to be in action.

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Plot is character revealed by action.

Anger Is a Gift.

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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.

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.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Well begun is half done.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.