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
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.