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Well begun is half done. (Aristotle)
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. View quote
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. View quote
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Happiness depends upon ourselves. View quote
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. View quote
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
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The soul never thinks without a picture. View quote
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. View quote
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Evil draws men together. View quote
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. View quote
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Beauty is the gift of God. (Aristotle)
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. View quote
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We make war that we might live in peace. View quote
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. View quote
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. View quote
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. View quote
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. View quote
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. View quote
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. View quote
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. View quote
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. (Aristotle)
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. View quote
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. View quote
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Our characters are the result of our conduct. View quote
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. 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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