Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

— Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

— Aristotle

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.

— Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

— Aristotle

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

— Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors but in deserving them.

— Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

— Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

— Aristotle