01c. 353 BCThe only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle / quote ↗
03c. 353 BCPolitical society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle / quote ↗
05c. 353 BCOne must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.Aristotle / quote ↗
07c. 353 BCIn poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.Aristotle / quote ↗
08c. 353 BCThe ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.Aristotle / quote ↗
09c. 353 BCNor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more will the liberal man take from wrong sources; for such taking is not characteristic of the man who sets no store by wealth.Aristotle / quote ↗
10c. 353 BCThe beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.Aristotle / quote ↗
12c. 353 BCFor there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it.Aristotle / quote ↗
13c. 353 BCIt is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.Aristotle / quote ↗
14c. 353 BCIt is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.Aristotle / quote ↗
17c. 353 BCAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle / quote ↗
18c. 353 BCIt is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.Aristotle / quote ↗
19c. 353 BCAnybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.Aristotle / quote ↗
20c. 353 BCAnyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.Aristotle / quote ↗
21c. 353 BCThose who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.Aristotle / quote ↗
22c. 353 BCWe must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.Aristotle / quote ↗
23c. 353 BCAll persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.Aristotle / quote ↗
