Aristotle Quotes (121+)

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Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Man is by nature a social animal.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit.

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Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.