He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Aristotle
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About Aristotle
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by AristotleWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
He who hath many friends hath none.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist with…