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140 quotes by Aristotle

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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;... →

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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The soul never thinks without a picture.

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Well begun is half done.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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