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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- The secret to humor is surprise.
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- Bad men are full of repentance.
- Well begun is half done.
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do…
- Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle