100+ Aristotle Quotes & Sayings

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Friendship Fruit Ripen Work
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Happiness Healing Inspirational One Liner Ourselves
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
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Fool Men Speak Wise
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Citizen Goodness Man Patriotism Value Virtue
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Action Chance Desire Habit Human Nature Passion Patience
Philosophy can make people sick.
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One Liner People Philosophy Sickness
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Awareness Power Survival Value
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Aim Avoid Goals Pain Pleasure Secure
We make war that we may live in peace.
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Live One Liner Peace War
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Courage Honor Mind Quality World
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Energy Essence Life Mind One Liner
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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Friendship One Liner
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Art Excellence Habit One Liner Traning Win
Change in all things is sweet.
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Change One Liner Sweet
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Healing Inspirational Myself One Liner Wisdom
The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
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Humour Mind One Liner Soul Thinking
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Acquire Acting Men Quality
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Body Habit Love One Liner Romantic
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Express Inspirational Man People Philosophy Wise Writing
Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Inspirational Life Mood Power
To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
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Crowd Entrepreneur Inspirational Leadership Orchestra
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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Brave Conquer Enemy Overcome Victory War
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Bitter Fruit Inspirational One Liner Patience Sweet
Through discipline comes freedom.
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Calm Discipline Freedom Improvement One Liner Peace
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Crime One Liner Parents Poverty Revolution
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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Care Mind People Thinking Truth
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Inspirational Learning Life

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