Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “In justice is all virtues found in sum.”

— Aristotle

252. “Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.”

— Aristotle

253. “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

— Aristotle

254. “Boundaries don’t protect rivers, people do.”

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255. “Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.”

— Aristotle

256. “There is more both of beauty and of raison d’etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.”

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257. “All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.”

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258. “The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.”

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259. “The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.”

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260. “The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”

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261. “The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.”

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262. “The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.”

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263. “Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.”

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264. “To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.”

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265. “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.”

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266. “The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”

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267. “A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.”

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268. “Character is revealed through action.”

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269. “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”

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270. “Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.”

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271. “The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.”

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272. “Adventure is worthwhile.”

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273. “A true friend is one soul divided into two people.”

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274. “Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

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275. “For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.”

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276. “When the looms spin by themselves, we’ll have no need for slaves.”

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277. “Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.”

— Aristotle

278. “Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.”

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279. “For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”

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280. “Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.”

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281. “Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.”

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282. “To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.”

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283. “Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

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284. “The first principle of all action is leisure.”

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285. “Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.”

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286. “No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

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287. “Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”

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288. “No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

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289. “The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

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290. “Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.”

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291. “To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.”

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292. “Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.”

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293. “Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.”

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294. “Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.”

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295. “The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.”

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296. “The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.”

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297. “In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.”

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298. “Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.”

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299. “Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.”

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300. “The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.”

— Aristotle