Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
~ Aristotle - [Society]

The soul never thinks without a picture.
~ Aristotle - [Soul]

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
~ Aristotle - [Soul]

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~ Aristotle - [Suffering]

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle - [Teachers and Teaching]

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
~ Aristotle - [Temperament]

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
~ Aristotle - [Tragedies]

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
~ Aristotle - [Truth]

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~ Aristotle - [Truth]

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~ Aristotle - [Virtue]

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
~ Aristotle - [Virtue]

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~ Aristotle - [Virtue]

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
~ Aristotle - [Pleasure]

Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
~ Aristotle - [Poetry and Poets]

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
~ Aristotle - [Poetry and Poets]

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
~ Aristotle - [Politicians and Politics]

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.
~ Aristotle - [Politicians and Politics]

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~ Aristotle - [Possibilities]

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~ Aristotle - [Poverty and The Poor]

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
~ Aristotle - [Praise]