Aristotle Quotes, Words Of Wisdom Quotes, Principles Quotes

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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A man is the origin of his action.

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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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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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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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