Aristotle Quotes

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

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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

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

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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

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Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous

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Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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