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Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/; Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC)[n 1] was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece. Along with Plato, Aristotle is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy", which inherited almost its entire lexicon from his teachings, including problems and methods of inquiry, so influencing almost all forms of knowledge.

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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Motivational, Mirrors, Way, Persons, Ways, Accessible

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Cup, Cups, Lip, Lips, Slip, Slips

When. . . we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Community, Indirectly, Law, Laws, Promote, Pursuit Of Happiness

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

Character, Differences, Hence, Men, Ought

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

Animal, Determination, Lust, Men, Moral, Political

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.

Examination, Humor, Subject, Tests, Wit

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

Exercise, Faculties, Men, Perfect, Several, Spiritual

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Certain, People, Salt, Together

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Heart, Man, Men, Passion, Passionless, Sway

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. . . . And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

Concerned, Essence, Exclusively, Properties, Study, Substance

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Body, Judges, Judging, Justice, Life, Office

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Character, Democracy, Friend, People, True Friend

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Logical Reasoning, Parts, Peace, Philosophical, Sum, Whole

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art, Philosophy, Philosophical, Represent, Inward, Outward

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Mark, Mind, Nature, Possible, Truth

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Dancing, Follower, Followers, Good, Leader, Leadership

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Thinking, Justice, Diversity, Perceiving, Conscious, Existence

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Men, Desire, Unions, Intellect, Action

Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

Government, Views, Law, Considered, Sense, Citizen

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Good, Good Man, Man, Men, Needs, Possess

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