Greek - Philosopher | 384 BC - 322 BC
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
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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.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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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.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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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.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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