About Aristotle
Aristotle (Attic Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning 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...
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings
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—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.