Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action...

— Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

— Aristotle
Deep About Life Philosophy Virtue Self Control

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

— Aristotle
School Inspirational for Teachers

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

— Aristotle
Education Values Encouraging for Students Teacher

I’ve just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

— Aristotle Onassis

The only rule is there are no rules.

— Aristotle Onassis

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

— Aristotle Onassis

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

— Aristotle Onassis

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

— Aristotle Onassis

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

— Aristotle Onassis

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

— Aristotle Onassis

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

— Aristotle Onassis

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

— Aristotle Onassis

I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.

— Aristotle Onassis

Find a priest who understands English and doesn’t look like Rasputin.

— Aristotle Onassis

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

— Aristotle Onassis

Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

— Aristotle

But what matters for questions of virtue and vice is whether your acts are not merely voluntary but also chosen.

— Aristotle

Une chose, quand elle n’est pas excessive, est un bien ; du moment qu’elle est plus grande qu’il ne faut, elle devient un mal.

— Aristotle

And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.

— Aristotle

Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.

— Aristotle
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