Aristotle
Ancient Greece
-384 // -322
Philosopher
-384 // -322
Philosopher
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness
Nature does nothing uselessly
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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