“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
Aristotle
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
Aristotle
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
Aristotle
“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.”
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“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
Aristotle
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
Aristotle
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
Aristotle
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
Aristotle
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
Aristotle
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
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“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
Aristotle
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
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“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.”
Aristotle
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
Aristotle
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
Aristotle
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
Aristotle
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
Aristotle
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
Aristotle
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
Aristotle
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
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“Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.”
Aristotle
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
Aristotle
“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.”
Aristotle
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”
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“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
“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.”
Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
“Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.”
Aristotle
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
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“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
Aristotle
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Aristotle
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle
“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.”
Aristotle
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Aristotle
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Aristotle
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Aristotle
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Aristotle
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
Aristotle
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”
Aristotle
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
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“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.”
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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
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