Aristotle Quotes

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle

Virtues, Beloved, Liberalism

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

Education, Age, Best

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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Men, Business, Special

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Improbable, Preferred, Probable

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Character, Moral, Actions

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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Politics, Good, Science

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Virtue, Dealing, Justly

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Down, Written, Remain

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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Truth, Later, Deviation

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle

Whole, Sum, Parts

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Age, Old, Youth

No one loves the man whom he fears.
Aristotle

Loves, Fears, Whom

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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Men, Best, Virtue

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle

Nature, Eyes, Soul

Nature does nothing in vain.
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Nature, Nothing, Vain

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Wisdom, Justice, Virtue

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Life, Men, After

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Friends, Shows, Misfortune

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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Men, Fear, Evil

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Same, Once, Times

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

Men, Fear, Reverence

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle

Soul, Body, Whether

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Nature, History, Poetry

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Art, Lies, Taught

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 384 BC

Died: 322 BC

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