Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- AristotleBashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- AristotleAnyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone`s power and that is not easy.
- AristotleWell begun is half done.
- AristotleExcellence 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.
- AristotleThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- AristotleThe difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
- SocratesHope is a waking dream.
- AristotleIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- AristotleEducation is the best provision for old age.
- AristotleIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- AristotleThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- AristotleEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- AristotleIf 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 the government to the utmost.
- AristotleThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
- AristotleIf 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.
- AristotleWoman once made equal to man becomes his superior
- SocratesOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- SocratesIf 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.
- AristotleMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- AristotleGet not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- SocratesWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- AristotleFriendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- AristotleBe slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- SocratesWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- AristotleHumor 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.
- AristotleThe secret to humor is surprise.
- AristotleThe unexamined life is not worth living.
- SocratesNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- SocratesLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- AristotleMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you`ll be happy; if not, you`ll become a philosopher.
- SocratesIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- AristotleNature does nothing uselessly.
- AristotleIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature`s way.
- AristotleHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- SocratesWe make war that we may live in peace.
- AristotlePoetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- AristotleMan is by nature a political animal.
- AristotleDemocracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- AristotlePhilosophy is the science which considers truth
- AristotleIt is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- AristotleWisdom begins in wonder.
- SocratesThe mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- AristotleVirtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.
- AristotleIt is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
- AristotleThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- SocratesAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- AristotleMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- AristotleTo die will be an awfully big adventure.
- AristotleOne swallow does not make a summer.
- Aristotle