More quotes by Aristotle

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."