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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.
Aristotle

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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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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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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Blaze, Day, Evident, Most, Nature, Our, Reason, Soul, Which