Aristotle Quotes

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Greek philosopher
384 BC-322 BC

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

  • You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour.

  • Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

  • First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  • The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

  • Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  • Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

  • Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  • The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

  • 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.

  • Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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

  • Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  • A friend to all is a friend to none.

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