Quote #129
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable- should persist after the beauty was gone.
More from Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.