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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that agent and patient at once. (Aristotle)
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. View quote
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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous. View quote
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. View quote
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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. View quote
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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. View quote
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It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). View quote
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. View quote
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. View quote
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake. View quote
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Cruel is the strife of brothers. (Aristotle)
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. View quote
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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. View quote
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. View quote
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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. View quote
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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. View quote
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. View quote
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes. View quote
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. View quote
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. View quote
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Either a beast or a god. (Aristotle)
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want. View quote
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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just. View quote
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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. View quote
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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends mathematics has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. View quote
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