“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
– Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
– Aristotle
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
– Aristotle
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
– Aristotle
“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.”
– Aristotle
“Change in all things is sweet.”
– Aristotle
“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”
– Aristotle
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
– Aristotle
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
– Aristotle
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
– Aristotle
“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”
– Aristotle
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
– Aristotle
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
– Aristotle
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
– Aristotle
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
– Aristotle
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
– Aristotle
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
– Aristotle
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
– Aristotle
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
– Aristotle
“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.”
– Aristotle
“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.”
– Aristotle
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
– Aristotle
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
– Aristotle
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
– Aristotle
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
– Aristotle