Aristotle Quotes

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- Aristotle

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
- Aristotle

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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.
- Aristotle