Aristotle Quotes

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle

He who hath many friends hath none.
- Aristotle

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
- Aristotle

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
- Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Aristotle

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
- Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
- Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Aristotle

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- Aristotle