Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all. Aristotle More Quotes by Aristotle More Quotes From Aristotle The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow. Aristotle gratitudecouragelife People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort. Aristotle effortwisepeople Men create the gods after their own images. Aristotle atheismmenreligion It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle politicalanimalmen Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied. Aristotle menfirsts Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. Aristotle prosperityvirtue The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul. Aristotle studysoulstudents If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle democracies-haveequalityfreedom It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. Aristotle citieslawmen Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle philosophicalpoetryhistory Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. Aristotle nicomachean-ethicsobedienceself Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness Aristotle soulperfecthappiness He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times. Aristotle endurecourageway Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked. Aristotle errorsignorancemen We 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 nervesmenthinking There is honor in being a dog. Aristotle honordog [Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. Aristotle masshuman-naturemen It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. Aristotle patrioticmotivationcharacter We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle veterans-daystrengthpeace The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. Aristotle evilfearmen
