Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”

— Aristotle

202. “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.”

— Aristotle

203. “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

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

— Aristotle

205. “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

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

— Aristotle

207. “To love someone is to identify with them.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

209. “Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.”

— Aristotle

210. “Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

214. “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

— Aristotle

215. “So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

218. “The soul is the form of the body.”

— Aristotle

219. “The secret to humor is surprise.”

— Aristotle

220. “There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.”

— 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. “Happiness is self-connectedness.”

— Aristotle

223. “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action...”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

226. “Cruel is the strife of brothers.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

228. “Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?”

— Aristotle

229. “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

230. “That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

232. “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

— Aristotle

233. “Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

234. “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

— Aristotle

235. “Authority is no source for Truth.”

— Aristotle

236. “The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

239. “The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

241. “Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.”

— Aristotle

242. “Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.”

— Aristotle

243. “By ‘life,’ we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

245. “Art takes nature as its model.”

— Aristotle

246. “The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement – in fact, of nervous functions in general, – are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.”

— Aristotle

247. “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

249. “Evil brings men together.”

— Aristotle

250. “In justice is all virtues found in sum.”

— Aristotle