Aristotle Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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Aristotle - it is easy to fly into a passion - - anybody can...
The gods too are fond of a joke.
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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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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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A friend is a second self.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Aristotle - happiness depends upon ourselves....
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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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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In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
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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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Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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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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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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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 old age.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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