Aristotle Quotes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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A friend is a second self.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Aristotle - it is well to be up before daybreak, for such...
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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Aristotle - it is not always the same thing to be a good man...
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Aristotle - happiness is the highest good, being a...
Wit is educated insolence.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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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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Happiness is a state of activity.
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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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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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All proofs rest on premises.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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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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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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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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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 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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