Aristotle Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Elements Quotes

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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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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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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