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Aristotle's insights on Endurance aren't theoretical—they're battle-tested wisdom from someone who operated at the highest level. This collection distills that experience into quotable principles, each with source context for verification. When you're navigating Endurance in the real world, these quotes offer the kind of practical guidance that only comes from direct experience.
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
"The person who stands his ground against things that are painful and does not lose his head is a man of endurance."
"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
"It is more difficult to endure pain than to abstain from pleasure."
"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
"To perceive is to suffer."
"Endurance consists in not being defeated, whereas continence consists in conquering."
"The brave man is as unperturbed as a man can be; he will fear such things indeed, but he will stand his ground against them as he ought."
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends."
"Change in all things is sweet."
"No one feels fear who thinks that nothing can happen to him."
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."
"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 aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
"A man who is not a master of himself can never be a master of others."
"The more we fear, the more we are inclined to think."
"He who is to be a good ruler must first have been ruled."
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
"Through discipline comes freedom."
"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."
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