Διορατικά αποφθέγματα του Αριστοτέλη για τη ζωή, τη σοφία και την εκπαίδευση

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Man is his desire.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Happiness is a state of activity.

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