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“For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.”

Aristotle Economics

1345a.20 http://artflx.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusGreekTexts&getid=1&query=Arist.%20Oec.%201345a.20, Economics (Oeconomica), Greek Texts and Translations, Perseus under PhiloLogic.
Economics

Health , Winter , Summer

“It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book II, 1267b.4
Politics

Men , Nature

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book I, 1253a.27
Politics

God

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; // In feelings, not in figures on a dial. // We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives // Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”

Aristotle

This is actually from the poem "We live in deeds..." by Philip James Bailey. This explains the strange pattern of capitalization.
Misattributed

Feeling , Thinking , Time , Heart

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

Aristotle

Whilst a paraphrase this is based off of Aristotle's writings as Aristotle stated "For instance, it is thought that justice is equality, and so it is, though not for everybody but only for those who are equals; and it is thought that inequality is just, for so indeed it is, though not for everybody, but for those who are unequal" in https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml Politics, III. V. 8.
Misattributed
This first appears in 1974 in an explanation of Aristotle's politics in Time magazine, before being condensed to an epigram as "Aristotle's Axiom" in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

Aristotle

Source: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, p. 187

Dreams , Hope

“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book I, 1253a.31
Politics

Justice , Law , Animals , Perfection

“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”

Aristotle

Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2

Intelligence

“Liars … when they speak the truth they are not believed.”

Aristotle

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Truth

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book II, 1269a.9
Politics

Law

“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Book VIII, 1155a.26
Nicomachean Ethics

Friendship , Friendship , People , Justice

“The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.”

Aristotle book Metaphysics

982a.15, W. Ross, trans., The Basic Works of Aristotle (2001), p. 691.
Metaphysics

“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

Aristotle book Posterior Analytics

I. 13, 78a.22
Posterior Analytics

Knowledge

“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely [in all respects].”

Aristotle book Politics

Aristotle, Politics, Book V 1301a.29-31
Politics

Men , Democracy , Thinking

“They should rule who are able to rule best.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book II, 1273b.5
Politics

“It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book I, 1355b.1
Rhetoric

“That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.”

Aristotle book Metaphysics

982a16, Complete Works, vol. 2, p. 1554
Metaphysics

Wisdom , Nature

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

Aristotle book Poetics

1451b.6
Poetics

History , Universe