"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 on Courage
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle on Poverty and The Poor
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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

Aristotle on Possibilities
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

Aristotle on Beauty
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on Poetry and Poets
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on Pleasure
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"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle on Parents and Parenting
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle on Nature
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

Aristotle on Morality
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

Aristotle on Morality
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"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

Aristotle on Memory
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on Love
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."

Aristotle on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on Self-control
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"The soul never thinks without a picture."

Aristotle on Soul
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on Writers and Writing
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on Wit
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"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Aristotle on Wit
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"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

Aristotle on Temperament
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on Teachers and Teaching
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on Character
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on Action
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on Action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on Action
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

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

Aristotle on Suffering
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on Anger
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

Aristotle on Anger
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Aristotle on Excellence
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on Excellence
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on Excellence
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"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."

Aristotle on Education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on Education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on Education
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on Education
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on Discipline
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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