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

- Aristotle

2. To love someone is to identify with them.

- Aristotle

3. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

- Aristotle

4. Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

- Aristotle

5. Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

- Aristotle

6. All men by nature desire knowledge.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

8. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

- Aristotle

9. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

- Aristotle

10. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

- Aristotle

11. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

- Aristotle

12. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

- Aristotle

13. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

- Aristotle

14. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

- Aristotle

15. Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

- Aristotle

16. To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

- Aristotle

17. The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

18. We make war that we may live in peace.

- Aristotle

19. Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

- Aristotle

20. The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

- Aristotle

21. The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

- Aristotle

22. You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

24. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

26. We cannot learn without pain.

- Aristotle

27. All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

- Aristotle

28. Man is by nature a political animal.

- Aristotle

29. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

- Aristotle

30. Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

- Aristotle

31. Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

32. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

- Aristotle

33. For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

- Aristotle

34. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

- Aristotle

35. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

- Aristotle

36. 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

37. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

38. No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

- Aristotle

39. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

- Aristotle

40. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

41. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

42. Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

44. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

- Aristotle

45. Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

46. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

47. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

- Aristotle

48. Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

- Aristotle

49. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

- Aristotle

50. We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

- Aristotle

51. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

- Aristotle

52. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

- Aristotle

53. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

- Aristotle

54. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

55. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

- Aristotle

56. 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

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

- Aristotle

58. The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

59. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

- Aristotle

60. Through discipline comes freedom.

- Aristotle

61. Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

63. The secret to humor is surprise.

- Aristotle

64. Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

- Aristotle

65. Happiness is activity.

- Aristotle

66. The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

- Aristotle

67. The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.

- Aristotle

68. There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

- Aristotle

69. A friend to all is a friend to none.

- Aristotle

70. The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

- Aristotle

71. Wit is educated insolence.

- Aristotle

72. A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state.

- Aristotle

73. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

- Aristotle

74. The actuality of thought is life.

- Aristotle

75. 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

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

- Aristotle

77. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

79. This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

81. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Aristotle

82. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

- Aristotle

83. Change in all things is sweet.

- Aristotle

84. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

87. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

- Aristotle

88. 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

89. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

91. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

- Aristotle

92. It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.

- Aristotle

93. To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

94. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

- Aristotle

95. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.

- Aristotle

96. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

97. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

99. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

102. Each man judges well the things he knows.

- Aristotle

103. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

- Aristotle

104. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

105. Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

- Aristotle

106. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

- Aristotle

107. Most people would rather give than get affection.

- Aristotle

108. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

- Aristotle

109. Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

- Aristotle

110. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle