100+ Aristotle Quotes & Sayings

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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Art Education Honor Life Mentor Philosophy Teacher
Bad men are full of repentance.
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Bad Men One Liner Repentance
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Accident Circumstances Dignity Grace Ideal Life Man Struggle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Dealing One Liner Virtue
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Fear Men One Liner
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Glory Happiness Leisure Politics Power
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Habit One Liner Quality
It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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Amusement Efforts Involvement Life
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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History Philosophy Poetry Universe Writing
All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Men One Liner Philosophy
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Existence Goals Happiness Human Life Purpose
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
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Need Talent Vocation World
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Teaching Understanding
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
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Corruption Disaster Earthquake Funny Humour Politics Warning
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Friendship Misfortune One Liner
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Courage Coward Life One Liner
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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Animal Goals Man Reach Seek Strive
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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Antidote Enemies Friendship One Liner
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
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Deep God Healing Himself Minimalism Self Love
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Beautiful Marvelous Nature One Liner
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Beautiful Marvelous Nature One Liner
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Action Excellence Habit Inspirational
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Character Effective One Liner
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Consist Deserve Dignity Honor
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Impossible Inspirational Possible Prefer
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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Healing Inspirational Turn
Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Nature One Liner Useless

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