Aristotle Quotes

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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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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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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Aristotle - it is in justice that the ordering of society is...
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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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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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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A friend is a second self.
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Aristotle - patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet....
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Aristotle - young people are in a condition like permanent...
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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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 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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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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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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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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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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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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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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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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