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...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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.