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
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.