Aristotle Quotes

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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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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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Aristotle - dignity does not consist in possessing honors,...
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do.
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Aristotle - whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks,...
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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Aristotle - those who have the command of the arms in a...
Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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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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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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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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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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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 perceive is to suffer.
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