Quotes by Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
(Rhetoric)

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

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

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

"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

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

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

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

"Wit is educated insolence. "

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.

The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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