Aristotle ✓

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[Wikidata] 4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath... | [Wikipedia] Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that foll

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• There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Apathy
• Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for… Anger
• It is possible to fail in many ways while for success it is possible only in one way Atilde
• Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. All
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. Action
• Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes. Chance
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit. Cute Friendship
• People generally despise where they flatter Despair
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those… Act
• Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources All
• Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense… Account
• The mother of revolution and crime is poverty Crime
• Poverty is the parent of revolution Parent
• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by… Acquire
• Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude...Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an… Action
• The soul can not think without a picture. Picture
• The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either. Always Anxious
• The roots of education r bitter bt d fruits r sweet... Bitter
• What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies. Bodies
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Act
• The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not. Comes Quickly
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. --Aristotle Aristotle
• The fate of empires depends upon the education of the youth. Depends

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