Quotes by Philosopher

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

It is no easy task to be good.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.