Aristoteles Quotes Page 2

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

“Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.”

“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”

“The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.”

“The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“The law is reason, free from passion.”

“The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.”

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

“The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

“The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.”

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

“Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.”

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“Through discipline comes freedom.”

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.”

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

“We become brave by doing brave acts.”

“Well begun is half done.”

“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”

“Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”