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 body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.