Thursday, 11 August 2011

Aristotle Quotes and Sayings page(5)

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle 

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle 

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle 

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle 

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle 

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle 

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle 

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle 

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle 

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle 

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Aristotle 

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle 

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle 

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle 

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle 

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle 

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle


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