Aristotle Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

“Change in all things is sweet.”

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“Wit is educated insolence.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.”

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”