Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
A friend is another I.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
I guess the kid had everything but the luck.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
The more you own, the more you know you don't own.
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.