Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle] — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
