Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
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
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
Chance
Fearless
Upon
Chances
Death
Sudden
Come
Noble
Brave
Train
Called
Alone
Strictly
More quotes by Aristotle
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
Aristotle
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
Aristotle
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
Aristotle
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.
Aristotle
The greatest victory is over self.
Aristotle
Wicked me obey from fear good men,from love.
Aristotle
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
Aristotle
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back while judicial decisions are made off hand.
Aristotle
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Aristotle
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
Aristotle
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.
Aristotle
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Aristotle
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
Aristotle
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
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
