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Letter "A" » Aristotle Quotes
«Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
A Beautiful Mind, bears, bear in mind, calamities, cheerfulness, insensibility
«Education is the best provision for old age.»
«Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
hurtful, instances, ruined
«Hope is the dream of a waking man.»
«Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Bravery,
Habit,
Morality
| Keywords:
moral excellence, temperate
«The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Excellence,
Happiness
| Keywords:
amusement, consist, exertion, Happy Life
«Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Actors and acting,
Personality,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
performing, temperate
«This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own»
«When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Adventure,
Bravery,
Courage,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
adventures, disgraceful, run away, The Mark, The Mark of
«The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to»
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