Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

203. “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

204. “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

205. “Character is revealed through action.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

207. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

212. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

215. “Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

— Aristotle

216. “Authority is no source for Truth.”

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

— Aristotle

219. “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

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

— Aristotle

221. “Art takes nature as its model.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

223. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

227. “Nothing is what rocks dream about.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

236. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

239. “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

240. “The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.”

— Aristotle

241. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

245. “Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

248. “Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle