Aristotle Quotes
Ancient Greek philosopher, scientist and writer. He laid the foundations of scientific and logical inquiry.
(384 BC - 322 BC)
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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A friend is a second self.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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A king ruleth as he ought; a tyrant as he lists; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
[Tyranny]
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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A man is the origin of his actions
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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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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
[Action]
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
[Bodies]
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
[Against]
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A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
[Knowledge]
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
[Goals]
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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