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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul. — Aristotle.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. — Aristotle.

We work to earn our leisure. — Aristotle.

All men are alike when asleep. — Aristotle.

Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear. — Aristotle.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal . — Aristotle.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle.

But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men. — Aristotle.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do. — Aristotle.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. — Aristotle.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness — Aristotle.

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence. — Aristotle.

One has no friend who has many friends. — Aristotle.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. — Aristotle.

Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him. — Aristotle.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver. — Aristotle.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed. — Aristotle.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means. — Aristotle.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. — Aristotle Onassis

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle.

Cruel is the strife of brothers. — Aristotle.

Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time! — James Dashner

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios. — Aristotle.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover. — Aristotle.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle.

Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle.

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not. — Aristotle.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us. — Aristotle.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. — Aristotle.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. — Aristotle.

The law is reason unaffected by desire. — Aristotle.

If something's bound to happen, it will
happen.. Right time, right person, and for
the best reason. — Aristotle.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle.

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. - ARISTOTLE — Christopher McDougall

Human beings are curious by nature. — Aristotle.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell" — Aristotle.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want. — Aristotle.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. — Aristotle Onassis

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue; — Aristotle.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. — Aristotle.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. — Aristotle.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. — Aristotle.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. — Aristotle.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence ... makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle.

All learning is derived from things previously known. — Aristotle.

They who love in excess also hate in excess. — Aristotle.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance — Aristotle.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies — Aristotle.

Philosophy begins with wonder. — Aristotle.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them. — Aristotle.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. — Aristotle.

No science ever defends its first principles. — Aristotle.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. — Aristotle.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle — Danielle LaPorte

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. — Aristotle.

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. — Simon Critchley

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them. — Aristotle.

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. — Charles Duhigg

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all — Aristotle.

Evil draws men together. — Aristotle.

Every realm of nature is marvelous. — Aristotle.

The science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. — Aristotle.

It is no easy task to be good. — Aristotle.

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart. — Aristotle.

mean is the cause — Aristotle.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world — Aristotle.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee. — Shaquille O'Neal

The best things are placed between extremes. — Aristotle.

The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become. — Aristotle.

Ideas after Aristotle multiplied but did not progress. — John Mark Reynolds

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. — Aristotle.

Happiness is a state of activity. — Aristotle.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete. — Aristotle.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. — Aristotle.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. — Aristotle.

Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? — Aristotle.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something — Aristotle.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. — Aristotle.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle.

Only you can take you to Funkytown. — Aristotle.

The greatest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. — Aristotle.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd — Aristotle.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you. — Aristotle.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. — Aristotle.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture. — Aristotle.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle.