131 Famous Aristotle Quotes - Best Quotes on Life and Human (Part 3)

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ARISTOTLE QUOTES

81. Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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82. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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83. Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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84. Education is the best provision for old age.

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85. Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

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86. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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87. Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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88. I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.

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89. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

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90. In poverty and other misfortunes of life men think friends to be their only 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.

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91. 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.

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92. 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.

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93. In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

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94. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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95. It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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96. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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97. Law is mind without reason.

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98. Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

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99. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal.

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100. Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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101. Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

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102. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

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

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104. No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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105. Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

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106. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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107. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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108. The gods too are fond of a joke

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109. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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110. The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

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111. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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112. The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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113. The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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114. The soul never thinks without a picture.

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115. The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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116. The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness.

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117. They should rule who are able to rule best.

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118. This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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119. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

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120. Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

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121. Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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122. To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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123. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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124. To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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125. To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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126. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

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127. We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

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128. What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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129. Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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130. With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

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131. Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

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