Aristotle Quotes

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle

Great, City, Confounded

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.
Aristotle

End, Whole, Action

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle

Choose, Existence, Condition

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

Brave, Become, Moral

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Politics, Life, Happiness

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Greatest, Useful, Virtues

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

Done, Half, Begun

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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Friendship, Good, Men

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Hope, Dream, Waking

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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Teacher, Power, Knowledge

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Time, Happy, Blessed

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Love, Truth, Friends

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Good, Art, Thought

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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Life, Best, Rise

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Best, Friend, Wishes

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Courage, Fear, Confidence

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Genius, Madness

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Wisdom, Mean, Reason

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Living, Dead, Educated

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
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Change, Time, Mind

Man is by nature a political animal.
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Nature, Political, Animal

We make war that we may live in peace.
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Peace, War, Live

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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Life, Happiness, Men

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Good, Ruled, Ruler

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Men, Acting, Quality

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 384 BC

Died: 322 BC

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