Quotes
Quotes - Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
One swallow does not make spring.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Wit is educated insolence.
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.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
