Aristotle Quotes
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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity, since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known, and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.
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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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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
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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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When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
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The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
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How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.