Aristotle Quotes
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
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Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.
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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.