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Aristotle


Greek
384 BC
Philosopher
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.


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Hope is a waking dream.


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Man is by nature a political animal.


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Change in all things is sweet.


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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.


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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.


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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.


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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.


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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.


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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.


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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.


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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.


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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.


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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.


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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.


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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.


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


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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.


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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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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.


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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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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.


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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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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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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.
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