Aristotle Quotes

Biography
Type: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC




A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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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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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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