Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle

Profession : Philosopher

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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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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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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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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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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