Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
We are what we repeatedly do.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The gods too are fond of a joke
Wit is educated insolence.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Education is the best provision for old age.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Hope is a waking dream.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.