Aristotle Short Quotes

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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God and nature create nothing that has not its use.

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A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.

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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

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Liars … when they speak the truth they are not believed.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure. It is a great saying.

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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

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Knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honored and prized...

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

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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The end of this science [ethics] is not knowledge but action.

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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

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