Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle - it is the mark of an educated mind to rest...
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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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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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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Aristotle - different men seek after happiness in different...
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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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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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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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving 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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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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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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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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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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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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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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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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Law is mind without reason.
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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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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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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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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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