Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities.
--Aristotle Poetics, xxiv.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
--Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.
--Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
--Aristotle
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.
--Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge.
--Aristotle
We cannot learn without pain.
--Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Greek writer, philosopher
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
--Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
--Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation;
and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
--Aristotle (384-322 BC) Metaphysica
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
--Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.
--Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
--Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is over self.
--Aristotle
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