Aristotle

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Aristotle

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Aristotle

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

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.

Aristotle

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Aristotle

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Aristotle

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

Aristotle