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Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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age

Education is the best provision for old age.

-Aristotle

age

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.

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anger

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

-Aristotle

art

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

-Aristotle

art

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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art

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

-Aristotle

art

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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art

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

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art

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

-Aristotle

beauty

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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best

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

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best

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

best

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

-Aristotle

best

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

-Aristotle

best

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

-Aristotle

best

Education is the best provision for old age.

-Aristotle

best

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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best

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

business

Change in all things is sweet.

-Aristotle

change

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

change

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

-Aristotle

courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

-Aristotle

courage

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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courage

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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death

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

-Aristotle

education

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

-Aristotle

education

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

-Aristotle

education

Education is the best provision for old age.

-Aristotle

education

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

equality

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

-Aristotle

fear

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

-Aristotle

fear

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

-Aristotle

fear

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

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.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

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.

Change in all things is sweet.

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.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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