Tag: Aristotle
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
Aristotle
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle