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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Stubbornly | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 1.00 | Fav

The principle of democratic guvernment is liberty. Politics

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Liberty | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 5.50 | Fav

I miss the reality of doing a play where the only thing at stake is the work.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 46 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I had a loving family, and in that way I was lucky, because that saved me from some of the temptations.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Family | Clicks: 195 | Rank: 9.71 | Fav

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Human | Clicks: 46 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Courage | Clicks: 88 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Wit is educated insolence.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Inteligence | Clicks: 53 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Friendship | Clicks: 48 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 50 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Power | Clicks: 46 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Well begun is half done.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Good | Clicks: 56 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Eulogy | Clicks: 102 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 45 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We make war that we may live in peace.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: War | Clicks: 123 | Rank: 9.20 | Fav

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 74 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 171 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Tragedy | Clicks: 62 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Friendship | Clicks: 52 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Cowardice | Clicks: 60 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Author: Aristotel (384 BC - 322 BC) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 47 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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