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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Aristotle |
Youth |
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Wit is educated insolence.
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Aristotle |
Education |
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Aristotle |
Miscellaneous |
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Aristotle |
War & Peace |
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We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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Aristotle |
Miscellaneous |
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Aristotle |
Success |
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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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Aristotle |
Virtue |
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Aristotle |
Humor |
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Aristotle |
Education |
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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Aristotle |
Truth & Lies |
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Aristotle |
God |
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Aristotle |
Education |
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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Aristotle |
Marriage |
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Aristotle |
Art |
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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.
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Aristotle |
Beauty |
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Aristotle |
Philosophy |
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Aristotle |
Beauty |
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One swallow does not make a summer.
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Aristotle |
Miscellaneous |
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Aristotle |
Virtue |
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Aristotle |
Friendship |
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Aristotle |
Genius |
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Aristotle |
Nature |
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Aristotle |
Friendship |
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Aristotle |
Children |
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Aristotle |
Morality |
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Aristotle |
God |
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Aristotle |
Miscellaneous |
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Aristotle |
Politics |
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Aristotle |
Love |
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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Aristotle |
Truth & Lies |
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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Aristotle |
Quotations |
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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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Aristotle |
Education |
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Aristotle |
Ideas |
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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Aristotle |
Morality |
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Aristotle |
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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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Aristotle |
Democracy |
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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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Aristotle |
Philosophy |
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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.
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Aristotle |
Humor |
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Aristotle |
Hope |
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Aristotle |
Happiness |
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Aristotle |
Friendship |
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Aristotle |
Fear |
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Aristotle |
Virtue |
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Aristotle |
Democracy |
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Aristotle |
Courage |
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
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Aristotle |
Morality |
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Aristotle |
Success |
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Aristotle |
Government |
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Aristotle |
Age |
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Aristotle |
Morality |
