Aristotle Quotes

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. –
- Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Aristotle

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. –
- Aristotle

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

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous
- Aristotle

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
- Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism.
- Aristotle

I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
- Aristotle

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
- Aristotle

I have gained this by philosophy; that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- 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

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
- Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Aristotle

Is happiness to be acquired by learning, by habit, or some other form of training? It seems to come as a result of virtue and some process of learning and to be among the godlike things since its end is godlike and blessed.
- Aristotle

People are different and unequal and yet must be somehow equated. This is why all things that are exchanged must be comparable and to this end, money has been introduced as an intermediate for it measures all things. In truth, demand holds things together and without it, there would be no exchange.
- Aristotle