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  • All men by nature desire knowledge. ― Aristotle
  • There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ― Aristotle
  • Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ― Aristotle
  • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ― Aristotle
  • Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ― Aristotle
  • You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ― Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ― Aristotle

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ― Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state. ― Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ― Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ― Aristotle

Quality is not an act; it is a habit. ― Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none. ― Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ― Aristotle

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

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ― Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. ― Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream. ― Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny. ― Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ― Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ― Aristotle

All human beings, by nature, desire to know. ― Aristotle

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ― Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ― Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ― Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves. ― Aristotle

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. ― Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet. ― Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ― Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ― Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ― Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ― Aristotle

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. ― Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ― Aristotle

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. ― Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ― Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer. ― Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ― Aristotle

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ― Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. ― Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ― Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ― Aristotle

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ― Aristotle

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. ― Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. ― Aristotle

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. ― Aristotle

Each man judges well the things he knows. ― Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ― Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ― Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ― Aristotle

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ― Aristotle

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ― Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ― Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ― Aristotle

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. ― Aristotle

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. ― Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ― Aristotle

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. ― Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ― Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ― Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ― Aristotle

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. ― Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one fine day; similarly, one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. ― Aristotle

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. ― Aristotle

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons. ― Aristotle

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain. ― Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership. ― Aristotle

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ― Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ― Aristotle

Happiness is activity. ― Aristotle

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ― Aristotle

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. ― Aristotle

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. ― Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ― Aristotle

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. ― Aristotle

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ― Aristotle

The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. ― Aristotle

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. ― Aristotle

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ― Aristotle

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. ― Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. ― Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ― Aristotle

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ― Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ― Aristotle

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way. ― Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly. ― Aristotle

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something. ― Aristotle

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ― Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ― Aristotle

Happiness is a state of activity. ― Aristotle

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ― Aristotle

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. ― Aristotle

Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies. ― Aristotle

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation. ― Aristotle

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ― Aristotle

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. ― Aristotle

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ― Aristotle

Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ― Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace. ― Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. ― Aristotle

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ― Aristotle

The Law is Reason free from Passion. ― Aristotle

A friend is a second self. ― Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection. ― Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ― Aristotle

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ― Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise. ― Aristotle

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ― Aristotle

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. ― Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. ― Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ― Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. ― Aristotle

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. ― Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ― Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism. ― Aristotle

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. ― Aristotle

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. ― Aristotle

The actuality of thought is life. ― Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ― Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ― Aristotle

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. ― Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke. ― Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar. ― Aristotle

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. ― Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold. ― Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ― Aristotle

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. ― Aristotle

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is. ― Aristotle

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. ― Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ― Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. ― Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ― Aristotle

Through discipline comes freedom. ― Aristotle

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. ― Aristotle

To love someone is to identify with them. ― Aristotle

To the query, what is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ― Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. ― Aristotle

We cannot learn without pain. ― Aristotle

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. ― Aristotle

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. ― Aristotle

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. ― Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ― Aristotle

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? ― Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ― Aristotle

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