Aristotle Quotes

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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Aristotle - change in all things is sweet....
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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Aristotle - the best friend is the man who in wishing me well...
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Aristotle - it is in justice that the ordering of society is...
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.
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We are what we repeatedly do.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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Law is mind without reason.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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