Quote #73
Education is the best provision for old age.
More from Aristotle
- For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. (1461b11)
- Hope is a waking dream.
- Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. (1460a19)
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to …
- Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. (1455a33)
- To the query, 'What is a friend?' his reply was 'A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'