Profound Aristotle Quotes That Will Show You a Deeper Meaning in Life

Wit is educated insolence.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

All men by nature desire to know.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

He who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Evil brings men together.