Aristotle Quotes

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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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 beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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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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Aristotle Quotes

    Aristotle

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He who hath many friends hath none.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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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 government to the utmost.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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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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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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