Aristotle Quotes
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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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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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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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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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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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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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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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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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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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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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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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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
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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.