Aristotle Quotes
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Beauty is the gift of God.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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A man is the origin of his action.
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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.