Quotes by Aristotle

"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on affection
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on dignity
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

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

Aristotle on education
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"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 on education
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

Aristotle on education
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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

Aristotle on empire
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"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."

Aristotle on equality
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"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

Aristotle on equality
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

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

Aristotle on evil
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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."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Cruel is the strife of brothers."

Aristotle on family
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

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

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Without friends no one would choose to live."

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

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

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

Aristotle on achievement
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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."

Aristotle on goals
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

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

Aristotle on goodness
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

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

Aristotle on habit
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness is activity."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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