Aristotle Quotes - Page 4

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

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