43148. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43147. “Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics January 7, 2022
43146. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43145. “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43144. “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43142. “Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43141. “All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43140. “He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43138. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43137. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” ― Aristotle January 7, 2022
43135. “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.” ― Aristotle, Poetics January 7, 2022
43126. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43125. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43123. “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43121. “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.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43120. “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43119. “Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43116. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43113. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics January 5, 2022
43111. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43110. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” ― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle January 5, 2022
43109. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ― Aristotle, Selected Works January 5, 2022
43108. “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” ― Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics January 5, 2022
43106. “I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43105. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics January 5, 2022
43104. “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ” ― Aristotle, Politics January 5, 2022
43101. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics January 5, 2022
43100. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” ― Aristotle January 5, 2022
43098. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43097. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43095. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43094. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43093. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43088. “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.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43087. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43085. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43084. “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.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43083. “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.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43079. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle January 3, 2022
43077. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle, Metaphysics January 3, 2022