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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love, Single, Two
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Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Inspirational, Hope, Dream
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
Anger, Time, Power
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
Friendship, Friend, None
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship, Single, Two
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Act, Excellence, Habit
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Education, Mind, Thought
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
Political, Control, Perfect
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Happiness, Ourselves, Depends
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
Self, Him, Victory
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
Friendship, Best, Friend
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Education, Sweet, Bitter
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Courage, Mind, Greatest
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
True, Friend, Two
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.
Aristotle
Life, Art, Children
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.
Aristotle
Art, Training, Rather
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Art, Aim, Appearance
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
Politics, Men, Democracy
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
Nature, Human, Passion
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
Great, Beautiful, Mind
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
Motivational, Act, Quality
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship, Work, Friends
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
Life, Power, Rather
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
Religion, Him, Put
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
Jealousy, Good, Men

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Nationality: Greek
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC

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