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Aristotle

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Aristotle (384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose writings covered an enormous range of subjects including physics, biology, logic, ethics, and politics. A student of Plato, he went on to tutor Alexander the Great. His ideas on logic and scientific method laid the groundwork for much of Western intellectual tradition.

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

— Aristotle

Beauty

All Quotes by Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

Age

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

— Aristotle

Peace

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

Good

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

— Aristotle

Best

“He who hath many friends hath none.”

— Aristotle

Friendship

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

Life

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

— Aristotle

Art

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”

— Aristotle

Friendship

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”

— Aristotle

Great

“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

Nature

“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.”

— Aristotle

Good

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

— Aristotle

Friendship

“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”

— Aristotle

Time

“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

Fear

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

— Aristotle

Best

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

— Aristotle

Best

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”

— Aristotle

Power

“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

“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

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

— Aristotle

Motivational