50 Aristotle phrases to read and reflect on life – 42 Phrases

The wise man never says everything he thinks, but always thinks everything he says.

To have many friends is to have none.

The lonely man is a beast or a god.

The ignorant affirms, the wise doubts, the sensible reflects.

The intelligence is the educated insolence.

Some people think that to be a friend it is enough to want it, as if to be healthy it is enough to wish for health.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.

A good start is half.

The beautiful is the splendor of order.

What is a friend? A single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Culture is the best comfort for old age.

The smallest initial deviation from the truth multiplies to infinity as you go along.

Nature does nothing in vain.

All paid work absorbs and degrades the spirit.

At the bottom of a hole or a well, the stars happen to be discovered.

Hope is the dream of the waking man.

The guest is a better judge of a meal than the cook.

Is there a more terrible scourge than the injustice of guns in hand?

In all things of nature there is something wonderful.

We should behave towards our friends as we would like them to behave towards us.

Error happens in many ways, while being correct is possible only in one way.

Pleasure at work improves the work.

Happiness is having something to do, having something to love and something to look forward to.

We must treat equals equally and unequals unequally, in proportion to their inequality.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it guarantees all others.

A friend is quickly made; friendship is a fruit that matures slowly.

We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence, then, is not a course of action, but a habit.

It is by doing that one learns to do what one must learn to do.

If things don’t go as we wish, we should wish for them the way they do.

Generally, it is the goods that come from chance that provoke envy.

Man is the principle of actions.

People are divided between those who save as if they live forever and those who spend as if they will die tomorrow.

Art is the idea of ​​the work, the idea that exists without matter.

Happiness is not found in external goods.

Modesty cannot be considered a virtue, for it is more like a suffering than a quality.

Beauty is the best letter of recommendation.

The roots of study are bitter, but its fruits are sweet.

Without friends, no one would choose to live, even if they had all other possessions.

Revolutions are not about small issues, but are born from small issues and bring big issues into play.

There never was great intelligence without a streak of madness.

The beginning of all sciences is the wonder of things being what they are.

Democracy arose when, due to the fact that everyone is equal in a sense, everyone was believed to be absolutely equal to one another.

Perfection is the middle ground between two vices: one for excess and the other for lack.

The characteristic of an educated soul is knowing how to welcome a thought without accepting it.

The wise man does not seek pleasure, but freedom from worries and sufferings. To be happy is to be self-sufficient.

One who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

The historian and the poet are not distinguished from each other by the fact that the former writes in prose and the latter in verse. They differ from each other, because one writes what happened and the other what could have happened.

The man who avoids and fears everything, does not face anything, becomes a coward.

Love is the feeling of imperfect beings, since the function of love is to lead the human being to perfection.

A man who bows does not straighten others.