Aristotle Quotes

Greek philosopher and scientist

A friend to all is a friend to none.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Education is the best provision for old age.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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The Gods too are fond of a joke.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
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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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Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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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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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
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Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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Law is mind without reason.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.
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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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They – Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things – and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning – all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything – they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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