Κορυφαία 25 αποφθέγματα του Αριστοτέλη για τη φιλοσοφία και την αρετή

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Courage is being crazy enough to think that you will be the one person to emerge victorious in the face of insurmountable obstacles.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in spite of fear in the face of fear.

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.

The use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure.

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

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Through discipline comes freedom.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.