"Courage is the mean between rashness and cowardice."
Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.
Not a Stoic. Aristotle is classed as Greco-Roman & Adjacent: Classical figures who shaped or argued with Stoicism — Socrates, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Cicero and others. Related, but not Stoic.
More quotes from Aristotle
- "To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
- "The joy that one has in thinking and learning makes us think and learn even more."
- "Happiness is not having what we want, but wanting what we have."
- "Hope is the dream of the awake man."
- "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the aim and end of human existence."