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"75 Aristotle Quotes & Sayings

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B. 384 B.C. D. 322 B.C | Philosopher |
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Dark Moment Focus Light
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Educated Mind Entertain Thought
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Happiness Purpose Life Existence
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friend All None
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Like Always Prefer Convince
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Human Action Have More
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All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
Human Nature Desire Know
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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 everyb

Angry Easy Person Purpose
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Best Animal Law Worst
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Character Most Mean May
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

First Human Quality Other
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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism Avoid Easy Say
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity Consist Honor Deserve
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Educate Mind Heart All
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Ornament Refuge Prosper Adversity
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even Law Down Ought
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Rascal Thief Every But
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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.

Excellence Art Train Virtue
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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.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Fear Pain From Evil
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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Best Choice Possible Achieve
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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.

Mirror Through Accessible Improve
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Good Form Youth Habit
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happy Depend Upon
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Never Learn Obey Good
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Count Brave Desire Victory
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Easy Perform Action Acquire
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Enough War Win Peace
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It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Possible Fail While Possible
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Well Health Wealth Wisdom
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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.

Man Goal Animal Goal
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Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love Single Soul Body
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Acquire Quality Particular Way
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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.

Creats Image Regard Mode
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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.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Job Pleasure Put Work
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Demand Special Gift Touch
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

More History Express Particular
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Quality Not Act Habit
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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Something Infinite Always Outside
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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.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aim Art Outward Appearance
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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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.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Energy Mind Essence Life
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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.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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Aristotle Quotes & Sayings