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Aristotle (384 BC- 322 BC) quotes
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- All men by nature desire to know.
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Hope is a waking dream.
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- The aim of the wise if not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- We make war that we may live in peace.