Aristotle Quotes
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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
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Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.
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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.
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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.
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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
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Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.
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All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
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Meanness is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.