Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “All men seek one goal: success or happiness.”

— Aristotle

202. “Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

204. “A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.”

— Aristotle

205. “The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.”

— Aristotle

206. “When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.”

— Aristotle

207. “A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.”

— Aristotle

208. “Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.”

— Aristotle

209. “The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

210. “Authority is no source for Truth.”

— Aristotle

211. “It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”

— Aristotle

212. “It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.”

— Aristotle

213. “Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”

— Aristotle

214. “Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden.”

— Aristotle

215. “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

— Aristotle

216. “The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.”

— Aristotle

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217. “In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.”

— Aristotle

218. “Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”

— Aristotle

219. “We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.”

— Aristotle

220. “No one loves the man whom he fears.”

— Aristotle

221. “It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”

— Aristotle

222. “Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.”

— Aristotle

223. “If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

— Aristotle

224. “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

— Aristotle

225. “Art takes nature as its model.”

— Aristotle

226. “Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.”

— Aristotle

227. “Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.”

— Aristotle

228. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

— Aristotle

229. “To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.”

— Aristotle

230. “Nature operates in the shortest way possible.”

— Aristotle

231. “Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

— Aristotle

232. “Adventure is worthwhile.”

— Aristotle

233. “Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

— Aristotle

234. “Nothing is what rocks dream about.”

— Aristotle

235. “Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.”

— Aristotle

236. “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.”

— Aristotle

237. “It is likely that unlikely things should happen.”

— Aristotle

238. “The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

240. “Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.”

— Aristotle

241. “The physician heals, Nature makes well.”

— Aristotle

242. “To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.”

— Aristotle

243. “Worms are the intestines of the earth.”

— Aristotle

244. “For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

— Aristotle

245. “Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

— Aristotle

246. “If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.”

— Aristotle

247. “No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

— Aristotle

248. “The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.”

— Aristotle

249. “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

— Aristotle

250. “Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.”

— Aristotle