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. View quote
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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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Happiness is a sort of action. View quote
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. View quote
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. View quote
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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. View quote
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. 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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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. 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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Time crumbles things everything older under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. 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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He who hath many friends hath none. 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)
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. View quote
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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. 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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