Aristotle Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Well begun is half done.”

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”

“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“Bad men are full of repentance.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”