Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

53. “All communication must lead to change.”

— Aristotle

54. “Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”

— Aristotle

55. “Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.”

— Aristotle

56. “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”

— Aristotle

57. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

— Aristotle

58. “Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”

— Aristotle

59. “To perceive is to suffer.”

— Aristotle

60. “Nature does nothing uselessly.”

— Aristotle

61. “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”

— Aristotle

62. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

— Aristotle

63. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”

— Aristotle

64. “Wit is educated insolence.”

— Aristotle

65. “Man is by nature a political animal.”

— Aristotle

66. “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”

— Aristotle

67. “When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.”

— Aristotle

68. “Wonder implies the desire to learn.”

— Aristotle

69. “Our characters are the result of our conduct.”

— Aristotle

70. “The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.”

— Aristotle

71. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

— Aristotle

72. “Beauty is the gift of God.”

— Aristotle

73. “There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.”

— Aristotle

74. “Philosophy begins with wonder.”

— Aristotle

75. “In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

77. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

— Aristotle

78. “Human beings are curious by nature.”

— Aristotle

79. “We make war that we may live in peace.”

— Aristotle

80. “I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

— Aristotle

81. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

— Aristotle

82. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

83. “It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”

— Aristotle

84. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

— Aristotle

85. “All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”

— Aristotle

86. “A person’s life persuades better than his word.”

— Aristotle

87. “Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

— Aristotle

88. “Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.”

— Aristotle

89. “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.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

91. “The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”

— Aristotle

92. “Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.”

— Aristotle

93. “Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.”

— Aristotle

94. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

— Aristotle

95. “If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.”

— Aristotle

96. “It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.”

— Aristotle

97. “The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.”

— Aristotle

98. “The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.”

— Aristotle

99. “We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

100. “Every realm of nature is marvelous.”

— Aristotle