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Quotes by Aristotle
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
- 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.
- After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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