QUOTATIONS BY ARISTOTLE

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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.


All men by nature desire knowledge.

We cannot learn without pain.


The energy of the mind is the essence of life.



What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.



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


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


Hope is a waking dream.


Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.


Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.


I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his

enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.



Philosophy is the science which considers truth.



Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities.



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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.


What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.