Aristotle Quotes

What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Aristotle - in the arena of human life the honours and...
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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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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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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Aristotle - the gods too are fond of a joke....
All proofs rest on premises.
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Aristotle - happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,...
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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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 human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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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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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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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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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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