Quotes with aristotle

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

  Alfred Marshall
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• Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

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• So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

  Aristotle
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• Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The gods too are fond of a joke.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The law is reason, free from passion.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• impossibilities
• possibilities
• significance
• necessarily
• degenerate
• despotisms

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