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Life Quotes by Aristotle

116 Life quotes by Aristotle

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Give a man a fish, they say, but a poisoned fish can hurt for a lifetime. The quotes compare a lively mind to a growing plant, saying that learning and exercise keep life alive. They also point out that true friends are safe shelters when times are hard.

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“For the activity of the mind is life”

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The actuality of thought is life.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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A person's life persuades better than his word.

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Limits exist only in the mind

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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To perceive is to suffer.

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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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The quality of life is determined by its activities.

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they…

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of…

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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…

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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the…

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Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the…

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to…

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the…

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But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared…

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he…

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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…

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“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it…

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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how…

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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has…

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“As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both…

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he…

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What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than…

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur…

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“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He…

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions…

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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve…

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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for…

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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only…

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You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from…

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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

All men by nature desire to know.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.