Aristotle Quotes
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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A friend is another I.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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Evils draw men together.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.