QUOTES by Aristotle
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
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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.
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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.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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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.
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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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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
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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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.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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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 possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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