Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.Wikipedia

Quotes by Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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

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

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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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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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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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.

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