When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — 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
