Aristotle Quotes

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

By Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

By Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.

By Aristotle

Man is naturally a political animal.

By Aristotle

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.

By Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

By Aristotle

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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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

By Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

By Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

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Bad men are full of repentance.

By Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.

By Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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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.

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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We make war that we may live in peace.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

By Aristotle

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

By Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture.

By Aristotle

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

By Aristotle

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

By Aristotle