Quotes by Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 384 - 322

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

Quotes 61 till 80 of 165.

  • Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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  • For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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  • For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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  • For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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  • Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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  • Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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  • Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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  • Happiness is a sort of action.
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  • Happiness is activity.
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  • He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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  • He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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  • Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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  • Hope is a waking dream.
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  • Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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  • I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
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  • If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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  • In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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  • In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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  • In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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  • It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
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