Favorite Aristotle Quotes

Named after Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, I have come to consider several of his quotes as food for thought. The following are some of my favorite Aristotle quotes:

All men by nature desire knowledge.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.