Aristotle Quotes

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 best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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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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To perceive is to suffer.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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We are what we repeatedly do.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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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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All proofs rest on premises.
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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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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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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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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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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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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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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Law is mind without reason.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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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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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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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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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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