Aristotle on Adversity Quotes

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

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence; and the things that it is concerned with are the most formidable of things."

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

"Even in these circumstances nobility shines through, when a person bears many great misfortunes with patience, not because he is insensitive to them but because he is of noble and great spirit."

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

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."

"It is the mark of a man of great soul to be unable to live with his life at the mercy of another, except it be a friend."

"Greatness of soul seems to be a sort of ornament of the virtues; for it makes them greater, and it is not found without them."

"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but brave."

"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."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, but in adversity it is most difficult of all things."

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"No one loves the man whom he fears."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Even where the danger is not very close, the fact that it is possible causes a certain amount of distress."

"He is a coward who flees from everything and is afraid of everything and faces nothing."

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

"Wicked men are full of regrets."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"For it is the nature of the many to be amenable to fear but not to a sense of honor, and to abstain from evil not because of its baseness but because of the penalties."

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

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

"The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul subdues its fear, and bravely faces the danger."