Aristotle quotes - page 3

The soul never thinks without a picture. (Aristotle)
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Evil draws men together.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Beauty is the gift of God.
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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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We make war that we might live in peace.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. (Aristotle)
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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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.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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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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Time crumbles things everything older under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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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.
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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)
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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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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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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