Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system...
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ProfessionPhilosopher
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
Happiness is the highest good
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
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Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort
What soon grows old? Gratitude.
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ...
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.