Aristotle Quotes
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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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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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.