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Misattributed quotes — Aristotle

384 BC–322 BC Greece

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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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Those who can, do, those who cannot, teach.

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Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery is suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination is certainly false wit.

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Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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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.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Whilst a paraphrase this is based on Aristotle's writings as Aristotle stated "For instance, it is thought that justice is equality, and so it is, though not for everybody but only for those who are equals; and it is thought that inequality is just, for so indeed it is, though not for everybody, but for those who are unequal" in https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml Politics, III. V. 8.

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