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Aristotle quotes, quotations, sayings

To love someone is to identify with them.
Aristotle
 1005    
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
 1005    
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
 1004    
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Aristotle
 1004    
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
 1004    
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
 1004    
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
 1004    
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle
 1004    
All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
 1004    
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Aristotle
 1004    
Happiness is a sort of action.
Aristotle
 1004    
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Aristotle
 1004    
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
 1004    
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
 1004    
Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
 1004    
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
 1004    
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
 1004    
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
 1004    
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
 1004    
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
 1004    
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle
 1004    
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
 1004    
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary
 1004    
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
 1004    
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
 1004    
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle
 1004    
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle
 1004    
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
Aristotle
 1004    
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.
Aristotle
 1004    
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
 1004    
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Aristotle
 1004    
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle
 1004    
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Vicomte De Chateaubriand
 1004    
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
 1004    
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Aristotle
 1004    
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
 1004    
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Aristotle
 1004    
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Aristotle
 1004    
It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
Aristotle
 1004    
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell
 1004    
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
 1004    
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell
 1004    
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
 1004    
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
 1004    
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
 1004    
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
 1004    
Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means.
Aristotle
 1004    
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
 1004    
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
Mark Twain
 1004    
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle
 1004    


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