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Time Quotes by Aristotle

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Aristotle warns that anger must be aimed at the right person, in the right degree, and at the right time for a proper purpose. He describes time as a force that erases deeds and memories, leaving only actions that touch the heart. He also notes that a tyrant keeps people busy so they have no time to plot.

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

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Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

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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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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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“It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner,…

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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole…

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It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily…

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner…

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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible…

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless…

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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those…

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the…

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there…

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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in…

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“A corroboration of what I have said is the fact, that the young come to be geometricians, and mathematicians, and Scientific in…

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“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and…

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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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“[F]or time itself is conceived as 'coming round'; and this again because time and such a standard rotation mutually determine each other.…

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small…

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of…

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Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As…

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“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not…

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the…

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“We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if…

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There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

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

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid…

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“It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the…

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such…

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He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right…

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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right…

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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it…

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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be…

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

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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.