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
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Through discipline comes freedom.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.