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
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years.
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
All men are alike when asleep.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?
We are what we reblog.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.