An eminent Greek Philosopher Aristotle have written many subject like metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric and lots more. Aristotle was born in 384 BCE at Stageira, Chalcidice and died in 322 BCE at Euboea. He was such a great philosopher that he wrote tones of books on every topic and it is been said that now only one-third of the original works of his are left. His writings also greatly influenced the Renaissance period and his works are still being cherished. Cicero the roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist described Aristotle�s literary style as “a river of gold”.

“Quotes by Aristotle”

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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A friend is a second self.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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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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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Man is naturally a political animal.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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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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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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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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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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We make war that we may live in peace.
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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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Well begun is half done.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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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.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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