Aristotle on accident
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
AristotleAristotle Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
AristotleAristotle If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
AristotleAristotle Nature does nothing uselessly.
AristotleAristotle Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleAristotle Happiness depends upon ourselves.
AristotleAristotle Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
AristotleAristotle It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
AristotleAristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleAristotle Philosophy can make people sick.
AristotleAristotle The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleAristotle The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
AristotleAristotle We make war that we may live in peace.
AristotleAristotle You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleAristotle The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
AristotleAristotle A friend to all is a friend to none.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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EpictetusEpictetus I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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