Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Aristotle quotes, Aristotle sayings, and Aristotle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle
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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.Aristotle
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Wealthy men are generally insolvent and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel as if they have every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a sort of standard for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is nothing it can't buy.Aristotle
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.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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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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In order to be good, a man must be in a certain state when he acts and must act by choice for the sake of the acts themselves.Aristotle
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Incontinence is not a vice for it is contrary to choice while vice flows from choice.Aristotle
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument, or follow a long chain of reasoning.Aristotle
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Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science.Aristotle
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.Aristotle
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Rhetoric falls into three divisions, determined by the three classes of listeners to speeches. For of the three elements in speech-making--speaker, subject, and person addressed it is the last one, the hearer, that determines the speech’s end and object.Aristotle
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.Aristotle
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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.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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In all things of nature, there is something marvelous.Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do...excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, build a habit and life isn't just a series of events but an ongoing process of self-definition.Aristotle
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.Aristotle
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The chief form of beauty is order and symmetry, and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate to a special degree.Aristotle
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.Aristotle
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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and unskilled labor.Aristotle
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
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It is easy to fly into a passion— anybody can do that— but to be angry with the right person and to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way— that is not easy, and it's not everyone who can do it.Aristotle
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Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.Aristotle
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Wicked men obey form fear; good men, from love.Aristotle
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
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Children are the legacy we leave for the time we will not live to see.Aristotle
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.Aristotle
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