Aristotle Quotes

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Aristotle Quotes

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Sad

“One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Children Parent Citizens

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Philosophical

“Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?”

Art Philosophy Depression

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Love

“Love well, be loved and do something of value.”

Wells Values

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Philosophical

“Nature does nothing in vain.”

Doe Philosophical

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Philosophical

“Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.”

Action Kindness Characteristics

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Grateful

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

War Nature

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Hopeful

“[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.”

Dream Hope

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Philosophical

“In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.”

Men Perfect Good Man

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Angry

“When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.”

People Class Vices

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Philosophical

“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.”

People Justice Friendship

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Philosophical

“While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.”

Lying Night Stars

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Philosophical

“And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”

Heart Views Brain

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