QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-3

1. To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies.""
2. "We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."
3. No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
4. "Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged."
5. That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
6. Beauty is the gift of God.
7. "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."
8. Hope is a waking dream.
9. It is possible to fail in many ways. . . while to succeed is possible only in one way.
10. "Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
11. Education is the best provision for old age.
12. "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."
13. A man is the origin of his action.
14. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
15. Between friends there is no need of justice.
16. Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
17. "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
18. All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
19. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
20. It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
21. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
22. There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
23. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
24. "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
25. The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.