Aristotle Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

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

“Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.”

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”

“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”

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

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

“We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.”

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