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
A gentleman is not disturbed by anything
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.