Quote by Aristotle Download Open image ““Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean”” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.” — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset… — Francis de Sale Copy Share Image
“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“everyone is affected when one person is demotivated, treated badly, not given due respect.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of others, we’ll… — Byron Forrest Yawn Copy Share Image
“In our subjective hindrance, we are nevertheless the objectively unhindered expression of nature as one moment transforms into the next.” — Thomas W. Clark Copy Share Image
“but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions and the conduct of our lives; and that regard for moral obligations, loyalty to friends, patience in finishing our work, obedience to a rule of life, have a surer foundation in habits solidly formed and blindly followed than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“but sometimes we say things we don’t mean. We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes… — Kandi Steiner Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one aspect of arrogance lies in not being willing to accept what life sometimes expects one to accept.” — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.” — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
“Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.” — Jon Ronson 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 one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It… — Aristotle Copy Share
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 common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are… — Aristotle Copy Share
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
