Aristotle
Ancient Greece
-384 // -322
Philosopher
-384 // -322
Philosopher
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The gods too are fond of a joke
The end of labor is to gain leisure
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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