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Aristotle
Beauty is the...
Beauty is the gift of God.
Source: In Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes...
The moral virtues,...
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the...
Hope is a...
Hope is a waking dream.
Source: In Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes...
It is possible...
It is possible to fail in many ways. . . while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Dignity consists not...
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Education is the...
Education is the best provision for old age.
Source: In Lives of Eminent...
What the statesman...
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a...
A man is...
A man is the origin of his action.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar...
Wishing to be...
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Between friends there...
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Educated men are...
Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
The ultimate value...
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere...
All that we...
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
Source: In Webster's...
A great city...
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Source: In
It is more...
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not...
Education is an...
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Source: In...
There is a...
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Source: In Webster's...
Probable impossibilities are...
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Source:...
At his best,...
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the...
The antidote for...
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...