Quotes by Aristotle

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will disc...

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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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.

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

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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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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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Author Bio

  • NameAristotle
  • DescriptionClassical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
  • AliasesAristoteles
  • Born384 BCE
  • Died322 BCE
  • CountryClassical Athens
  • ProfessionMetaphysician; Biologist; Cosmologist; Logician; Zoologist; Literary Critic; Mathematician; Ethicist; Epistemologist; Political Philosopher; Polymath; Philosopher Of Language