Aristotle Quotes
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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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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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All communication must lead to change.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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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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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.