Aristotle Quotes

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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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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Peace is more difficult than war.

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When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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The greatest victory is over self.

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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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