Aristotle Quotes
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
