Aristotle

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit.

Well begun is half done.

Profile / Biography:
In 384 BC, Aristotle was born in Stagira in north Greece. He was the son of Phaestis and Nichomachus, who was serving the Macedonian royal family as a court physician.  His mother died when he was very young and his father died when Aristotle was 10 years old. His uncle became his legal guardian and trained Aristotle in medicine, Greek, Latin and poetry.
In 367, he studied philosophy with Plato for twenty years at the Academy in Athens. When Plato died, Aristotle went to Turkey and study Biology. Plato got married twice and had a son with his second wife.  In 338, Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great who was 13 at the time and stopped when Alexander the great was 18.
During his lifetime, Aristotle wrote over 200 books that ranged from book on logic, to natural history, to physics to psychology to philosophy. Aristotle had an opinion on every subject whether it was about having a soul, to the concept of time and space. Aristotle’s work on natural history and physics was based on observation and dissections. Most of his work remains accurate to this day.
When Alexander the Great died, the Macedonians rebelled and Aristotle left Athens to go to Chalcis, his country home and died there in 322 BC