Aristotle Quotes

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
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Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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Well begun is half done.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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