Quotes by : Aristotle

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry....

Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason,....

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility....

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with....

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular....

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and....