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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Topic: Achievement
Source: None
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Topic: Affection
Source: None
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Topic: Bravery
Source: None
How God ever brings like to like.
Topic: Comparisons
Source: Ethics Mag (2, 11)
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.
Topic: Crisis
Source: None
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Topic: Education
Source: None
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Topic: Education
Source: None
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Topic: Education
Source: None
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Topic: Education
Source: None
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -
Aristotle.
Topic: Education
Source: None
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.
Topic: Education
Source: None
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Topic: Education
Source: None
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Topic: Equality
Source: None
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Topic: Excellence
Source: None
A friend is a second self.
Topic: Friendship
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]
Topic: Genius
Source: quoted by Burton's in "Anatomy of Melancholy"
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.
Topic: Geometry
Source: None
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Topic: Goals
Source: None
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Topic: Goodness
Source: None
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Topic: Habits
Source: None
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Topic: Honor
Source: None
Hope is a waking dream.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
Wit is cultured insolence.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Topic: Ideas
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Topic: Ideas
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Topic: Ideas
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Topic: Insanity
Source: None
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Topic: Justice
Source: Metaphysics--On the Virtues and Vices--Justice
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Topic: Justice
Source: Metaphysics--On the Virtues and Vices--Justice
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
Topic: Life
Source: Rhetoric (II, 15, par. III)
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Topic: Mathematics
Source: Metaphysica (3-1078b)
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
Topic: Metaphors
Source: Poetics (XXII)
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. -Aristotle.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Topic: Morals
Source: None
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Topic: Mothers
Source: None
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Topic: Nature
Source: Ethics (III, 5)
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
Topic: Novelty
Source: None
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Topic: Numbers
Source: Metaphysica (10f-1045a)
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Topic: Numbers
Source: Metaphysica (10f-1045a)
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Topic: Obedience
Source: None
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Topic: Opinions
Source: None
A Delphic sword.
Topic: Oracle
Source: Politica (I, 2), referring to the ambiguous
Delphic Oracles
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."
Topic: Past
Source: Ethics (bk. VI, ch. II), (R.W. Browne's translation)
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Topic: Pleasure
Source: None
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
Man is by nature a civic animal.
Topic: Politics
Source: Politics (I, 2)
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Topic: Possibilities
Source: None
One swallow does not make spring.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Ethic--Nicom (bk. I)
A friend is a second self.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
One day unfolds it and one day destroys.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Knowledge is power.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
Topic: Questions
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 6, no. 3)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Topic: Quick
Source: None
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Topic: Quick
Source: None
Bad men are full of repentance.
Topic: Repentance
Source: None
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Topic: Revolution
Source: Politics (bk. VII, ch. IV)
Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
Topic: Revolution
Source: None
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.
Topic: Service
Source: None
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Topic: Suffering
Source: None
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Topic: Survival
Source: None
One swallow does not make spring.
Topic: Swallows
Source: Ethic--Nicom (bk. I)
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Topic: Temperment
Source: None
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Topic: Volunteerism
Source: None
Wit is educated insolence.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None