Quotes by Aristotle’s motivation - 4

Paying tribute to the authors whose words continue to live on

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities

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