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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Topic: Nature
Source: Ethics (III, 5)
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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
Topic: Novelty
Source: None
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Topic: Numbers
Source: Metaphysica (10f-1045a)
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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Topic: Numbers
Source: Metaphysica (10f-1045a)
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Topic: Obedience
Source: None
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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Topic: Opinions
Source: None
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A Delphic sword.
Topic: Oracle
Source: Politica (I, 2), referring to the ambiguous Delphic Oracles
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Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."
Topic: Past
Source: Ethics (bk. VI, ch. II), (R.W. Browne's translation)
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Topic: Pleasure
Source: None
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
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Man is by nature a civic animal.
Topic: Politics
Source: Politics (I, 2)
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Topic: Possibilities
Source: None
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One swallow does not make spring.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Ethic--Nicom (bk. I)
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A friend is a second self.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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One day unfolds it and one day destroys.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Knowledge is power.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how
do we know it.
Topic: Questions
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 6, no. 3)
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Topic: Quick
Source: None
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Topic: Quick
Source: None
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Bad men are full of repentance.
Topic: Repentance
Source: None
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Topic: Revolution
Source: Politics (bk. VII, ch. IV)
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Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
Topic: Revolution
Source: None
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.
Topic: Service
Source: None
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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Topic: Suffering
Source: None
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Topic: Survival
Source: None
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One swallow does not make spring.
Topic: Swallows
Source: Ethic--Nicom (bk. I)
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Topic: Temperment
Source: None
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Topic: Volunteerism
Source: None
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Wit is educated insolence.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
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