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.
AQuote by Aristotel about mother, suffering, children, reason
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127 quotes by Aristotel
Aristotel - greek Philosopher
Also called: Aristote.
Life period: 384 BC - 322 BC
Origin country: Greece
Biography: Was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only give them life and beside this give them the art of living well, through education.
AQuote by Aristotel about education, children, art, magic, life
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
AQuote by Aristotel about virtue, rightness, man
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AQuote by Aristotel about rest, life
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
AQuote by Aristotel about cowardice, problems, death
To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies”.
AQuote by Aristotel about friendship, soul
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
AQuote by Aristotel about tragedy, emotions, attention, action, fear
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
AQuote by Aristotel about philosophy, habits
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
AQuote by Aristotel about philosophy, action
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
AQuote by Aristotel about philosophy, body, soul
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.
AQuote by Aristotel about praise, rightness, people, moment, time, man
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
AQuote by Aristotel about politics, virtue, character, moral
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AQuote by Aristotel about friendship, work
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AQuote by Aristotel about courage, quality, mind, world, contentment
