Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
Aristotle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
Punishment
Inflict
Forgiving
Kindly
Goodness
Deserving
Hate
Eager
Take
Vengeance
Good
Gracious
Love
Wicked
Forgiveness
More quotes by Aristotle
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
Aristotle
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
Aristotle
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Aristotle
Human beings are curious by nature.
Aristotle
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
Aristotle
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
Aristotle
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
Aristotle
Meanness is incurable it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Aristotle
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.
Aristotle
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
Aristotle
The soul is characterized by these capacities self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Aristotle
