~ Aristotle Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

We live in deeds not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most feels the noblest acts the best.

[MysteRy]

Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error; to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.

[MysteRy]

Anybody can become angry - that is easy but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

[MysteRy]

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.