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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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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
All paid jobs … absorb and degrade the mind.
All men by nature desire to know; the proof of this is the pleasure caused by sensations, for even apart from the usefulness, we enjoy them for themselves, and visual sensations more than the others.
The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep, and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals.
But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree...
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin, whether a state or anything else, will obtain the clearest view of them.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.
In a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens.
The infinite turns out to be the contrary of what it is said to be. It is not what has nothing outside it that is infinite, but what always has something outside it.
Change in all things is sweet.
Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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