Aristotle
80 quotations
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is a sort of action.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Either a beast or a god.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The secret to humor is surprise.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The law is reason, free from passion.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
All men by nature desire to know.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.