Aristotle Quotes
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Perception starts with the eye.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
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Law is mind without reason.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.