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| Aristotle Quotes |
Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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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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Man is by nature a political animal.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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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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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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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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Hope is a waking dream.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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Well begun is half done.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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