Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
ARISTOTLENature does nothing uselessly.
More Aristotle Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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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.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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