Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
—Aristotle
Topics: Shame
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
—Aristotle
Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions.
—Aristotle
Topics: Tragedy
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.—The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
—Aristotle
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
—Aristotle
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
—Aristotle
Topics: Success, Happiness, Money
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
—Aristotle
Topics: Goals, Meaning, Goal
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
—Aristotle
Topics: Confidence
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
—Aristotle
Topics: Doing
Wit is educated insolence.
—Aristotle
Topics: Intelligence, Wit
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
—Aristotle
Topics: Youth
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
—Aristotle
Topics: Man
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
—Aristotle
Topics: Ideas, Appearance
Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
—Aristotle
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
—Aristotle
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
—Aristotle
Topics: Poetry, Poets, Art
Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
—Aristotle
Topics: Youth
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
—Aristotle
Topics: Revolution
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
—Aristotle
Topics: Poverty, One liners
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
—Aristotle
Topics: Praise
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
—Aristotle
Topics: Memory
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the shock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
—Aristotle
Topics: Man
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty
—Aristotle
Topics: Liberty
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
—Aristotle
Topics: Wisdom, Learn, Adversity, Education, Society
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
—Aristotle
Topics: Community
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
—Aristotle
Topics: Equality, Government, Democracy, Liberty
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government
—Aristotle
Topics: Being Ourselves, Happiness, Government
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
—Aristotle
Topics: Friendship, Friends
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.
—Aristotle
Topics: Goals, Goal
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
—Aristotle
Topics: Awareness, Survival
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Plato Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Xenocrates Greek Philosopher, Scientist
- Heraclitus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Epictetus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Epicurus Greek Philosopher
- Bias of Priene Greek Orator
- Plotinus Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mystic
- Charles Sanders Peirce American Philosopher
- Pythagoras Greek Philosopher
- Euripides Ancient Greek Dramatist
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