Greek - Philosopher | 384 BC - 322 BC
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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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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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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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.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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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.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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