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384 BC–322 BC Greece
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotelēs; 384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the teacher of Theophrastus and founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
The excellence of females in regard to person, is beauty and stature; in regard to the mind, temperance, and fondness for employment, without meanness.
Our characters are the result of our conduct.
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Law is order, and good law is good order.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The fulfilment of what exists potentially, in so far as it exists potentially, is motion.
There are as many types of motion or change as there are meanings of the word 'is'.
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
IV. 1. as quoted by Florian Cajori (1899)
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
To say of what is, that it is, or of what is not, that it is not, is true.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
For the beginning is thought to be more than half the whole.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Haughtiness of women has been the ruin of many tyrannies.
These thinkers seem to consider that number is the principle both as matter for things and as constituting their attributes and permanent states.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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