Quotes from Aristotle

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

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

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.