AristotleThe honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. ✨ Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics.371Truth
AristotleA tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. ✨ Aristotle, Demetrius … ▶371Time
AristotleAnybody 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… ▶371PhilosophyPoliticsThought
AristotleThe basis of a democratic state is liberty ✨ Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations… ▶372PhilosophyPoliticsReading
AristotleAll Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world372Humor
AristotleFirst, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust al… ▶372PhilosophyThought
AristotleCharacter is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.373Life
AristotleIt is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit ✨ Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). Aristotle: Introductory Readings, p.283, Hackett … ▶362Reading
AristotleThe specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. ✨ Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). Poetics, p.58, University of Michigan Press362Sadness
AristotleHe who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. ✨ Aristotle (2016). Politics, p.86, Aristotle373Politics
AristotleWhy is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be… ▶373PhilosophyPoliticsReading
AristotleMusic 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 … ▶351LovePoliticsTime
AristotleWhere the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. ✨ Aristotle (2013). The Essential Aristotle, p.304, Simon and Schuster374Politics
AristotleHappiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is i… ▶374HumanityReflection
AristotleMan's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it. ✨ Aristotle, (2014). Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2:… ▶363Reflection
AristotleWith respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.352Life
AristotleBashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousa… ▶341PhilosophyThought
AristotleHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of … ▶341PhilosophyThought
AristotleThe end of labor is to gain leisure.363Thought
Aristotle[Hope is] the dream of a waking man. ✨ The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Book by Diogenes Laertius, p. 187, 1853.374HopeReading
AristotleTo give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power… ▶374Politics
AristotleHuman good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoe… ▶341HumanityTime
AristotleIn general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.331Reading
AristotleWicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.342Love
AristotleIt is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.353Humor
AristotleHappiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse our… ▶342LifeTruth
AristotleIt is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. ✨ Aristotle (2016). Politics, p.58, Aristotle364Politics
AristotleChoice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]364Politics
AristotleBeauty is the gift of God ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperis… ▶376PhilosophyThought
AristotleWe 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… ▶376DeathHumanityPolitics
