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Groups: Philosophers
Nationlity: Greeks

Aristotle

Quotes: (ranking: 620th)
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Greek philosopher


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"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Miscellaneous 4.6 avg (18 votes)
"We make war that we may live in peace." War & Peace 4.6 avg (28 votes)
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." Virtue 4.6 avg (9 votes)
"One swallow does not make a summer." Miscellaneous 4.5 avg (17 votes)
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." Government 4.5 avg (4 votes)
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." Courage 4.5 avg (8 votes)
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." Democracy 4.5 avg (8 votes)
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." Quotations 4.5 avg (6 votes)
"Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone." Beauty 4.5 avg (2 votes)
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." Truth & Lies 4.5 avg (4 votes)
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference." Beauty 4.5 avg (6 votes)
"Hope is a waking dream." Hope 4.4 avg (18 votes)
"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids." Morality 4.4 avg (5 votes)
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." Miscellaneous 4.4 avg (8 votes)
"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world." Friendship 4.4 avg (8 votes)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Happiness 4.3 avg (12 votes)
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." Friendship 4.3 avg (3 votes)
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels." 4.2 avg (5 votes)
"Nature does nothing uselessly." Nature 4.2 avg (5 votes)
"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so." Virtue 4.2 avg (5 votes)


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