Aristotle
Found 127 thoughts of Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
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This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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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.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once.
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