Aristotle Quotes

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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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Aristotle - mothers are fonder than fathers of their children...
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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We are what we repeatedly do.
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Aristotle - patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet....
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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Aristotle - all paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind....
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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A friend is a second self.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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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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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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All proofs rest on premises.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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