Quotes By Aristotle
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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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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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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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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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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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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