Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
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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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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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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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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
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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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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
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Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.
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... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
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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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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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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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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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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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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.