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 Aristotle Quotes
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” 
― Aristotle
 
“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.” 
― Aristotle
“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.” 
― Aristotle
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” 
― Aristotle
“I have gained this by philosophy; that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.” 
― Aristotle
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.” 
― Aristotle
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” 
― Aristotle
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” 
― Aristotle
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.” 
― Aristotle
“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” 
― Aristotle
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” 
― Aristotle
“Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.” 
― Aristotle
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” 
― Aristotle
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” 
― Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” 
― Aristotle
“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.” 
― Aristotle
Nationality: Greek
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC
Known For: Philosopher and Scientist