3 December 2020 Aristotle For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
3 December 2020 Aristotle It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
3 December 2020 Aristotle It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
3 December 2020 Aristotle You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
3 December 2020 Aristotle For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
3 December 2020 Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
