Aristotle Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

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

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”