Aristotle Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”

“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.”

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

“The soul never thinks without a picture.”