Quote

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Aristotle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
Brave
Train
Called
Alone
Strictly
Chance
Fearless
Upon
Chances
Death
Sudden
Come
Noble

More quotes by Aristotle

Image
We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
Aristotle
Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
Aristotle
Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
Aristotle
Image
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
Aristotle
Image
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
Aristotle
Image
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Aristotle
Image
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
Aristotle
Image
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
Image
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size by the second, equality of ratios.
Aristotle
Image
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
Image
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
Aristotle
Image
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
Aristotle
Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
Aristotle
Image
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Aristotle
Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
Aristotle
Image
A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
Image
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.
Aristotle
Image
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
Aristotle
Image
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
Aristotle
Image
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle