Quotes by Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 384 - 322

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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  • Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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  • Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
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  • A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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  • Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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  • Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
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  • Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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  • A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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  • Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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  • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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  • Education is the best provision for old age.
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  • First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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  • Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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  • All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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  • Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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  • Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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  • Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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  • The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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  • A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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  • All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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