Timeless Wisdom – Inspiring Aristotle Quotes for Modern Life

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Time crumbles things; we were made to stand and wait.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

Those who know do, those that understand teach.

He who has overcome his fears will be truly free.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Change in all things is sweet.

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

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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

He who is to be a great man should honor himself.

It is not what we have, but what we enjoy, that constitutes our abundance.

The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Nature does nothing in vain.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a notion without accepting it.

The beauty of the soul is reflected in the flow of reason.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We make war that we may live in peace.

He who has overcome his fears will be truly free.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

A quality is attained through training and habit.

Wisdom is the offspring of experience and reflection.

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