Learning has bitter roots and sweet fruit.
Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5
Learning has bitter roots and sweet fruit.
Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5
The source
"Learning has bitter roots and sweet fruit." Aristotle said it in Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5. Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
"It was a saying of his that the roots of education were bitter, but the fruit sweet"C. D. Yonge, 1853, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5. Anecdote reported by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD).
Who said it
Aristotle (384–322 BC). Plato's student and Alexander's tutor, who wrote on virtue as a practiced habit.
Questions
- Who said "Learning has bitter roots and sweet fruit."?
- Aristotle (384–322 BC). Source: Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5.
- What is the original wording?
- It was a saying of his that the roots of education were bitter, but the fruit sweet (C. D. Yonge, 1853). Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
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