Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.”

— Aristotle

302. “The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number – tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.”

— Aristotle

303. “Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.”

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304. “So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.”

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305. “All proofs rest on premises.”

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306. “Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.”

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307. “It is likely that unlikely things should happen.”

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308. “The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”

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309. “Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.”

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310. “True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.”

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311. “Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.”

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312. “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.”

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313. “The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.”

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314. “The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.”

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315. “It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.”

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316. “Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.”

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317. “One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.”

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318. “With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

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319. “Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”

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320. “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

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321. “I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.”

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322. “Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.”

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323. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

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324. “Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.”

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325. “It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

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326. “If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.”

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327. “The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.”

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328. “The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

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329. “Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.”

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330. “Law is mind without reason.”

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331. “A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.”

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332. “Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.”

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333. “Wickedness is nourished by lust.”

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334. “The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.”

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335. “It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.”

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336. “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.”

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337. “Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

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338. “The intention makes the crime.”

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339. “We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”

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340. “Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!”

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341. “Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it’s your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.”

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342. “The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.”

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343. “The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.”

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344. “A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.”

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345. “Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”

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346. “It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”

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347. “One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.”

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348. “People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.”

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349. “But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.”

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350. “Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.”

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