Thursday, 11 August 2011

Aristotle Quotes and Sayings page(7)

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle 

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

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle 

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle 

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.
Aristotle 

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle 

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.
Aristotle 

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle 

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle 

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle 

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle 

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle 

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle 

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

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.
Aristotle 

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle 

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle 

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle 

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle


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