Aristotle on Strength Quotes

"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."

"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."

"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

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

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

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"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."

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

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

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

"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."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

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

"Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness."

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."

"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."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

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

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

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"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."

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

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