The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Wit is educated insolence.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid...

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that...

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.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the...

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right...

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth...

The secret to humor is surprise.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him...

The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as...

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable...

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”— Aristotle

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

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle’s opinion… that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors… prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to...

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant...

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor...

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated...

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.