Aristotle Quotes
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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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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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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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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
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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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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents.
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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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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
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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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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.