Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — 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