Aristotle384–322 BCThe quotations of
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
384–322 BC
65 quotes, most often on Friendship, Education and Morality. Part of the Philosophers collection.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Attributed to Aristotle; reported in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks (1942), vol. 1, book 5, section 19, p. 463Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Rhetoric, Book I, 1369a.5
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X, 1177b.4
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
