" All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" The whole is more than the sum of its parts. "

Aristotle, Metaphysica Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange…Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. "

Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. "

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" The gods too are fond of a joke "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" The basis of a democratic state is liberty. "

Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. "

Aristotle, unknown Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" A friend is a second self. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. "

Aristotle, Physics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" The Pythagorean … having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers … and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. "

Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. "

Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" We make war that we may live in peace. "

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. "

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. "

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. "

Aristotle, Rhetoric Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" To perceive is to suffer. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. "

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

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

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

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