Aristotle - Life Quotes

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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Let us then enunciate the functions of a state and we shall easily elicit what we want: First there must be food; secondly, arts, for life requires many instruments; thirdly, there must be arms, for the members of a community have need of them, and in their own hands, too, in order to maintain authority both against disobedient subjects and against external assailants....

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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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