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Aristotle quotes

Ocupation: Philosopher

Life: 384 BC - 322 BC

Birthday: 384 BC

Death: 322 BC

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Topics: Leadership, True Leader, Commanders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership In Education

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Topics: Life, Success, Time, Life Philosophy, Moral Excellence

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Topics: Friendship, Best Friend, Men, Special Friend, Fake Friends

Quotation Aristotle It is our choice of good or evil that determines Quotes

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Topics: Truth, Science, Thinking, Scientific Truth

Quotation Aristotle Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Moral Excellence, Passion For Excellence

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Topics: Life, Death, Education, Moral Excellence, Philosophy Of Education

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Self, Great Minds, Insanity And Genius

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Success, Personal Journey, Bravery And Courage

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Topics: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Topics: Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence, Leadership Courage, Moral Excellence

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Topics: Philosophical, Tyrants, People, Oligarchy, Right To Bear Arms

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Topics: Inspiration, Parent, Poverty, Help The Poor, Causes Of Poverty

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Topics: Friendship, Feelings, Friendly

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Topics: Motivational, Wise, Destiny, Choose Wisely, Wise Choices

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Topics: Pain, Fear, Philosophical, Fear Of Love, Worry And Fear

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Topics: Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends, New Friendship, Eternal Friendship

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Topics: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Courage, Leadership Courage

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Topics: Friendship, Friends, Real Friends, Fake Friends, Cute Friendship

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Topics: Class, States, Middle

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Topics: Truth, History, Giving

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Topics: Long, Impossible, Argument

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude, Insensibility, Suffering And Pain

We make war that we may live in peace.

Topics: Strength, Veterans Day, Peace, War Veteran, Fighting Battles

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Topics: Anger, Men, Praise

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Topics: Enemy, Common, Danger, Common Enemy

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Topics: Integrity, Destiny, Men, Leadership Integrity, Moral Ethics

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Topics: Inspirational, Business, Work, Wake Up Call

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Topics: Men, Inability, Use

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Topics: Philosophical, Soul, Body

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Topics: Happiness, Beach, Ocean

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Topics: Freedom, Fear, Athlete, Fear None, Absolute Freedom

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Topics: Principles, Firsts, Mathematics, Saturated

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Topics: Art, Requirements, Impossible, Improbable

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Topics: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Life Crisis, Nicomachean Ethics

Happiness is activity.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Topics: Graduation, Education, Sweet, Inspirational Education, Memorable Graduation

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Topics: Wise, Pain, Philosophical, Pain And Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Topics: Inspirational, Happiness, Lying, Mind Opening, Daily Discipline

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Topics: Philosophy, Work, Tunnels, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Topics: Workout, Live Life, Philosophical, Sharing Knowledge

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Topics: Self, Consciousness, Conscious

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Topics: Animal, Hunting, Hunting And Fishing

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Topics: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Teachers And Teaching, Art Of Living

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Topics: Inspirational, Business, Self Esteem, Discovering Yourself, Inner Growth

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Topics: Inspirational, Criticism, Doing Nothing, Failure In Life, Lift You Up

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Topics: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Topics: Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism, Equality For All, Wealth Inequality

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Topics: Witty, Equality, Men, Equality For All

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Topics: Tyrants, People, Tasks, Daily Tasks

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Topics: Animal, Men, Law, Law And Justice, Ancient Greek Philosophers

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Topics: Curiosity, Desire, Wonder, Desire To Learn

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Topics: Faith, Education, Art, Classical Education, Education For All

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Topics: Wise, Writing, Men

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Topics: Marriage, Husband, Men, Lasting Marriage

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Topics: Learning

Art takes nature as its model.

Topics: Art, Models

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Topics: Teacher, Teaching, Humor

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Topics: Life, Gratitude, Courage

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Topics: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Topics: Funny, Creativity, Ideas, Genius And Madness

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Topics: Freedom, Equality, Men

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Topics: Knowing, Sick, Judging

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Topics: Life, Helping Others, Essence, Meaning Life, Volunteerism

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Topics: Heart, Soul, Brain, Brain Science, Seats

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

Topics: Art, Artist, Art Is

The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Topics: Life, Quality, Determined, Quality Of Life

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Topics: Peace, War, Winning

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Topics: Way, Achieve, Express Yourself, True Success

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Topics: Truth, Mind, Degrees

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Topics: Art, Training, Excellence

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Topics: Liberty, Needs, Beast, Nicomachean Ethics

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Topics: Nature, Physicians, Heal

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Topics: Praise, Standards, Higher Standards

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Topics: Inspiration, Character, Emotion

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Topics: Character, Giving, Quality, Human Happiness

Beauty is the gift of God

Topics: Beauty, Gift From God

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Topics: Writing, Eye, Genius, Resemblance

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

Topics: Lonely, War, Play, Playing Chess

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Topics: Friendship, People, Justice, Nicomachean Ethics

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Topics: Music, Passion, Character, Ignoble

Happiness is a sort of action.

Topics: Happiness, Action

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Topics: Business, War, Goal

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Topics: Disputes, Term, Paragraph, Could Have Been

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Topics: Memories, Soul, Scribes

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Topics: People, Democracy, Excess, Oligarchy

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Topics: Nature, Causes, Chance

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Topics: Fear, Tragedy, Catharsis

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Topics: Insanity, Anarchy, Sober, Mountaineering, Mountain Climbers

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Topics: Statistics

The actuality of thought is life.

Topics: Life, Actuality

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Topics: Men, Two, Sick, Deranged

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Topics: Mean, Two, Goodness, Two Meaning

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

Topics: Character, Soul, Theatre

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Topics: Brother, Strife

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.

Topics: Men, Player, Self

Perception starts with the eye.

Topics: Eye, Perception

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Topics: Love, Heart, Giving

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Topics: Happy Life, Effort, Amusement

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Topics: Prosperity, Virtue

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

Topics: Able, Proof, Teach

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

Topics: Laughter, Exercise

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Topics: Ignorant

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

source: - Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Journey, Discovery, Self, Important Relationships

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Topics: Tolerance, Dying, Lasts

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Topics: Justice, Self Centered

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Topics: Art, Artist, Giving

To love someone is to identify with them.

Topics: Love

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Topics: Political, Noble, Sake

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Topics: Sake, Wealth, Making Money, Nicomachean Ethics

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Topics: Choices, Matter, Chance

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

Topics: Soul, Body, Shapes

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Topics: Character, Sea, Noble

There is honor in being a dog.

Topics: Dog, Honor

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Topics: Pleasure

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

Topics: Plato, Truth Is

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Topics: Soul, Virtue, Virtue And Happiness, Nicomachean Ethics

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Topics: Character, Self, Support, Moral Character, Good Moral

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Topics: Guarantees, Want

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

Topics: Probability

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action...

Topics: War, Mean, Men, Decisive Action

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Topics: Reason, Right Time, Persons

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Topics: Fear, Men, Wicked, Wicked Man

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Topics: Science, Engineering, Order, Mathematical Beauty, Symmetry

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Topics: Law, Desire, Reason

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

Topics: Mean, Parent, Birth, Offspring, Usury

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Topics: Firsts, Virtue

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

Topics: Arithmetic, Prove

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

Topics: Men, Joy, Favors, Ideal Man

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

Topics: War, Men, Order, Servitude, Baseness

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.

Topics: Funny, Girlfriend, Purpose

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Topics: Prayer, Sacrifice, Atheism

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Topics: Happiness, Summer, Doe

Law is mind without reason.

Topics: Law, Mind, Reason

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

Topics: Children, Race, Would Be

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Topics: Love, Life, Positive, Say I Love You, Effortless

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Topics: Freedom, Philosophical, Men, Democracy Freedom, Voting And Democracy

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Topics: Nature, Philosophical, Passion, Daily Habits, Moral Excellence

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Topics: Power, Democracy, Majority

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Topics: Jealousy, Men, Envy, Jealous And Envy, Jealous Love

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Topics: Philosophical, Insanity, Soul, Insanity And Sanity, Exemption

He who hath many friends hath none.

Topics: Love, Friendship, Relationship

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Topics: Inspirational, Philosophical, Differences, Good Habits, Teenage Life

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Job Satisfaction, Inspirational Hard Work

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Topics: Atheist, Believe, Moving, Pious

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Topics: Spiritual, Thinking, Soul, Human Soul

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Topics: Courage, Peace, Bravery, Moral Excellence, Moral Virtues

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Topics: Life, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Topics: Philosophical, Character, Mean

Wit is educated insolence.

Topics: Inspirational, Witty, Humorous, Insolence

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Topics: Philosophical, History, Poetry

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Topics: Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect, Good Character, Human Dignity

Man is by nature a political animal.

Topics: Nature, Philosophical, Animal, Political Animals

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Topics: Love, Friendship, Truth

Bad men are full of repentance.

Topics: Philosophical, Men, Repentance, Bad Man

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Topics: Life, Philosophical, Alcohol, Life Balance, Banquets

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Topics: Philosophical, Cities, Confounding, City Life, Great Cities

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Topics: Summer, Blessed, Men, Nicomachean Ethics

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Topics: Liberty, Beloved, Virtue

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Topics: Men, Politics, Politician

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Topics: Love, Friendship, Family

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Topics: Time, Philosophical, Youth, Intoxication

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Topics: Life, Philosophical, Fancy

Education is the best provision for old age.

Topics: Graduation, Education, Teaching, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Graduation

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Topics: Philosophical, Possibility, Mathematical

Nature does nothing in vain.

Topics: Philosophical, Doe, Vain

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Topics: Peace, Philosophical, Mathematical, Mathematical Logic, Logical Reasoning

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical, Friends Forever, One Friend

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Topics: Character, People, Vices

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Topics: Courage, Philosophical, Brave, Moral Excellence

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Topics: Philosophical, Taken, Eye, Good Against Evil

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Topics: Art, Lying, Taught

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Topics: Inspirational, Witty, Humorous, Unbecoming, Nicomachean Ethics

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Topics: Freedom, Equality, Government, Social Equality, Liberty And Equality

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Topics: Suicide, Running, Suicidal

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Topics: Witty, Equality, Men, Equal Respect, Political Science

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Topics: Art, Choices, Inquiry, Nicomachean Ethics

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

source: - Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

Topics: Happy Life, Long, Effort, Life Changing Experience

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Topics: True Friend, True Life, Poverty, Prime Of Life, Misfortunes Of Others

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Topics: Inspirational, Happiness, Self, Freedom And Happiness, Greek Philosopher

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

Topics: Hands, Unions, Littles

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Topics: History, Development

Evil brings men together.

Topics: Men, Evil, Hatred

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Topics: Soul, Quality, Function

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Topics: Being Strong, Justice, Pay, Equality And Justice, Heed

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Topics: Mother, Virtue, Consistently

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Topics: Believe, People, Trying

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Topics: Men, Self, Cost, Pleasant Things, Self Indulgent

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Topics: Anger, Men, Shining, Mischance, Composure

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Topics: Anger, Age, Meanness

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Topics: Time, Memories, Heart, Slurs

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Topics: Inspirational, Mean, Goal, Project Management

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Topics: Men, Brain, Intelligence

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Topics: Justice, Action, Easy

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Topics: Sports, Self, Victory

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