Aristotle Quotes
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.