Quotes by Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
(Eudemian Ethics)

Education is the best provision for old age.
(from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

Hope is a waking dream.
(from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
(from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
(from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
(from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
(In Stobaeus, Florilegium)

All men by nature desire knowledge.
(Metaphysics)

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

One swallow does not make a summer.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

We make war that we may live in peace.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
('Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.)