Aristotle

Aristotle

"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
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"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
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"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
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"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
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"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
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"He who hath many friends hath none."
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
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"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
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"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
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"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
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"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
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