The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
AristotleTemperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
AristotleThose who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
AristotleWorthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
AristotleWe ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.
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