Aristotle quotes page 1

384-322 BC, Greek philosopher, student of Plato

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the
mind next to honor.
Aristotle

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

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions,
brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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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.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve
them.
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right
time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power
and that is not easy.
Aristotle

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act
in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Aristotle

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the
good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

The law is reason unaffected by desire.
Aristotle

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on
committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere
fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
Aristotle

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