Aristotle Quotes

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

To perceive is to suffer.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

The 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.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.