Aristotle quotes - page 3

Philosophy begins with wonder. (Aristotle)
Man is naturally a political animal. View quote
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Hope is a waking dream. View quote
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Well begun is half done. View quote
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. View quote
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. View quote
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Happiness depends upon ourselves. View quote
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. View quote
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
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The soul never thinks without a picture. View quote
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (Aristotle)
Evil draws men together. View quote
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. View quote
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Beauty is the gift of God. View quote
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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. View quote
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We make war that we might live in peace. View quote
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. View quote
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. View quote
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. View quote
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. View quote
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. (Aristotle)
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. View quote
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. View quote
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. View quote
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. View quote
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