Aristotle quotes - page 13

It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not well organized. (Aristotle)
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. View quote
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The hand is the tool of tools. View quote
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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. View quote
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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. View quote
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. View quote
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. View quote
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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed. View quote
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. View quote
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. View quote
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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. (Aristotle)
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes men's nature in the end. View quote
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else. View quote
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. View quote
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The actuality of thought is life. View quote
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. View quote
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. View quote
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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. View quote
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. View quote
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes it deficiencies. View quote
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. (Aristotle)
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. View quote
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. View quote
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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. View quote
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. View quote
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Aristotle

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Occupation: Greek Philosopher
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC
Quotes count: 463
Wikipedia: Aristotle

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