Aristotle Quotes
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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Well begun is half done.
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The best things are placed between extremes.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.