Aristotle Quotes And Sayings

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“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

“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

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
– Aristotle

“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”
– Aristotle

“For the activity of the mind is life”
– Aristotle

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
– Aristotle

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
– Aristotle

“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
– Aristotle

“Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.”
– Aristotle

“Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
– Aristotle

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”
– Aristotle

“Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.”
– Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle

“Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.”
– Aristotle

“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
– Aristotle

“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”
– Aristotle

“He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”
– Aristotle

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
– Aristotle

“he who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander”
– Aristotle

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
– Aristotle

“He who hath many friends hath none.”
– Aristotle

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”
– Aristotle

“Hope is a waking dream.”
– Aristotle

“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”
– Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
– Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”
– Aristotle

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

“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”
– Aristotle

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