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Aristotle

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Aristotle (384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose writings covered an enormous range of subjects including physics, biology, logic, ethics, and politics. A student of Plato, he went on to tutor Alexander the Great. His ideas on logic and scientific method laid the groundwork for much of Western intellectual tradition.

“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

Art

All Quotes by Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

Happiness

“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

— Aristotle

Fear

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

— Aristotle

Friendship

“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.”

— Aristotle

Good

“He who hath many friends hath none.”

— Aristotle

Friendship

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

— Aristotle

Nature

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

Life

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

— Aristotle

Mom

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

— Aristotle

Hope

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

— Aristotle

Men

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

— Aristotle

Friendship

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

— Aristotle

Nature

“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

Friendship

“Change in all things is sweet.”

— Aristotle

Change

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

— Aristotle

Education

“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”

— Aristotle

Nature

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

— Aristotle

Hope

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

— Aristotle

Courage

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

— Aristotle

Education

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

— Aristotle

Truth