Aristotle's Quotes

Aristotle's Quotes 235

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative...

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it...

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor...

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day,...

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we...

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion....

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are...

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul...

Man is by nature a political animal.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against...

Nature does nothing in vain.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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