Aristotle Quotes
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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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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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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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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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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
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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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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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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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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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The intention makes the crime.
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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.