Aristotle Quotes
243 Aristotle quotes:
"Wit is cultured insolence."
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"for the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater"
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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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"Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs."
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
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"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."
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"all he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth."
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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"The gods too are fond of a joke."
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
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"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
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"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit."
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"The law is reason, free from passion."
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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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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
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