Arisztotelész: Idézetek angolul (oldal 2)

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“Philosophy can make people sick.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.”

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

“Happiness is a state of activity.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“We make war that we may live in peace.”