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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) 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 followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

Quotes from Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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 performing brave actions.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

One swallow does not make a summer.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

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