
List of quotes from Aristotle
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
by Aristotle
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
by Aristotle Rhetoric
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
by Aristotle
"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
by Aristotle
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
by Aristotle
"A friend is a second self."
by Aristotle
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
by Aristotle
"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number."
by Aristotle http:--www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk-~history-Mathematicians-Pythagoras.html
"To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it."
by Aristotle
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
by Aristotle Metaphysica
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
by Aristotle
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
by Aristotle
"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
by Aristotle
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."
by Aristotle Florilegium In Stobaeus
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
by Aristotle