Aristotle Quotes
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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You should never think without an image.
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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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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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Perception starts with the eye.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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Law is mind without reason.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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Greed has no boundaries.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.