The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
AristotleTime crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
AristotleIt is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
AristotleQuite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
AristotleOne would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle