Heroes for a Better World

Aristotle
(384 BC- 322 BC)

Greek Philosopher & Scientist

birthdate: ?
birthplace:
Stagirus, Macedonia, Greece

QUOTES

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

A friend is a second self.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

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 the government to the utmost.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.

"Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader."

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

"It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others."

"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

 


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