Aristotle Quotes About Suffering

• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude

• To perceive is to suffer.

  Aristotle

  Life, Depression, Education

  Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

• Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Happy Life, Long, Effort

• The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Suffering, Body

• The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

  Aristotle

  Knowing, Sick, Judging

  De Republica III.16

• Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Lying, Order

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

  Aristotle

  Men, Angry Man, Hatred

• If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

  Aristotle

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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