Quotes from Aristotle

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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 government to the utmost.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.