Quotes by Aristotle’s motivation - 3

Paying tribute to the authors whose words continue to live on

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Man is by nature a political animal.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Well begun is half done.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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