Aristotle
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and polymath born at Stagira in northern Greece. He studied at Plato’s Academy in Athens for about twenty years. After Plato’s death, he worked in Assos and on Lesbos, conducting research in natural philosophy and biology. He later tutored Alexander, son of Philip II of Macedon. Around 335 BCE, Aristotle founded the Lyceum in Athens. His works address logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, physics, biology, rhetoric, and poetics. He died at Chalcis in 322 BCE.
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- None of the moral virtues arises in...
- We are adapted by nature to receive...
- Men become builders by building and...
- We become just by doing just acts,...
- States of character arise out of...
- It makes no small difference...
- By being habituated to despise...
- It is by the excellence of the eye...
- Virtue is a kind of mean, since it...
- Men are good in but one way, but...
- It is no easy task to be good.
- Any one can get angry — that is...
- Goodness is both rare and laudable...
- The friend is a second self.
- Without friends no one would choose...
- Happiness is the meaning and the...
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- The state is a creation of nature,...
- He who is unable to live in...
- Poetry is finer and more...
- Tragedy is an imitation of an...
- The whole is more than the sum of...
- Educating the mind without...
- Knowing yourself is the beginning...
- We are what we repeatedly do....
- It is the mark of an educated mind...
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection...
- Love is composed of a single soul...
- The energy of the mind is the...
- Nature does nothing uselessly.