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Aristotle

Read through the most famous quotes from Aristotle




It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.


— Aristotle


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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.


— Aristotle


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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.


— Aristotle


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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.


— Aristotle


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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.


— Aristotle


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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.


— Aristotle


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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.


— Aristotle


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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.


— Aristotle


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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.


— Aristotle


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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.


— Aristotle


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Did you know about Aristotle?

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world movement and other elements of Aristotelian thought. The final cause is its purpose or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. Politics

In addition to his works on ethics which address the individual Aristotle addressed the city in his work titled Politics.

All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs] Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology.

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