Quotes by Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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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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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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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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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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