The beauty of the soul shines out when.. Aristotle

Previous Aristotle Quotes

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.

Copy Translate

Aristotle

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek

Some suggestions for you :

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

In general, then, pleasure is not good, because every pleasure is a perceptible process of coming into its nature; but no coming-into-being belongs to the same class as the ends we pursue—for.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Human beings are by nature political animals.

Show all