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Aristotle
All men by...
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Source: Metaphysics, bk. 1, ch. 1.
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For this reason...
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than...
All art is...
All art is concerned with coming into being.
Source: Nicomachean Ethics, bk. VI,...
If happiness is...
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the...
Courage is the...
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the...
The things we...
The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Source:...
It is unbecoming...
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Source: Rhetoric, c. 322 B.C.
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One swallow does...
One swallow does not make a spring.
Source: Nicomachean Ethics.
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Well begun is...
Well begun is half done.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John...
Humor is the...
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and...
Those that know,...
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Source:
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Man is by...
Man is by nature a political animal.
Source: Politics, Bk. I
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Now a whole...
Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Source: Poetics,...
We become just...
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave...
To run away...
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not...
What we have...
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Source: Nicomachean Ethics, Bk....
The flute is...
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting.
The greatest thing...
The greatest thing is style. . . a mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for...
Man, when perfected,...
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of...
The man who...
The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and...