Aristotle Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

“In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”

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

“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”

“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

“No one loves the man whom he fears.”