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Aristotle

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


— Aristotle


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


— Aristotle


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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.


— Aristotle


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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.


— Aristotle


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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.


— Aristotle


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Bad men are full of repentance.


— Aristotle


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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.


— Aristotle


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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.


— Aristotle


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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.


— Aristotle


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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.


— 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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