QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-4

1. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself -- Power and glory, or happiness."
2. Wit is educated insolence.
3. Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.
4. "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."
5. The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
6. All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
7. "Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."
8. "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."
9. It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
10. "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
11. Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."
12. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
13. "For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
14. "It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
15. "Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
16. It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
17. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
18. Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
19. It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
20. "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
21. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
22. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
23. "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
24. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
25. Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.