Quotes from Aristotle

Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the admitted facts. Hence those who dwell in intimate association with nature and its phenomena are more able to lay down principles such as to admit of a wide and coherent development; while those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of few observations.

for it is not the sober man who is exposed either to plots or contempt, but the drunkard; not the early riser, but the sluggard.

We ought now to inquire into those events which will arise from these causes in every species of government. Democracies will be most subject to revolutions from the dishonesty of their demagogues; for partly, by informing against men of property, they induce them to join together through self-defence, for a common fear will make the greatest enemies unite; and partly by setting the common people against them: and this is what any one may continually see practised in many states.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Law is mind without reason.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

To love someone is to identify with them.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.