Aristotle
Found 127 thoughts of Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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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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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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