Aristotle
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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” -Aristotle
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“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.” -Aristotle
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“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.” -Aristotle
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“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.” -Aristotle
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” -Aristotle
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“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” -Aristotle
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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Aristotle
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“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
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” -Aristotle
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“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” -Aristotle
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“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
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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.” -Aristotle
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“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” -Aristotle
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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” -Aristotle
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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” -Aristotle
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“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.” -Aristotle
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Aristotle
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“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Aristotle
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“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.” -Aristotle
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“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Aristotle
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“Education is the best provision for old age.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Aristotle
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“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” -Aristotle
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“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.” -Aristotle
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“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.” -Aristotle
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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.” -Aristotle
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“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.” -Aristotle
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“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” -Aristotle
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“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
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