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Aristotle's Famous Quotes Collection

The document contains 14 quotes attributed to Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. The quotes cover a range of topics including mathematics, wisdom, knowledge, friendship, excellence, dignity, hope, misfortune, self-control, philosophy, plausibility, and open-mindedness. Aristotle emphasizes that order and limitation are forms of beauty, we cannot learn without pain, and that the energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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Aristotle's Famous Quotes Collection

The document contains 14 quotes attributed to Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. The quotes cover a range of topics including mathematics, wisdom, knowledge, friendship, excellence, dignity, hope, misfortune, self-control, philosophy, plausibility, and open-mindedness. Aristotle emphasizes that order and limitation are forms of beauty, we cannot learn without pain, and that the energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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QUOTES FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these
are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
--Aristotle (384-322 BC) Metaphysica

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
--Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy
mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of
high and heroic temper.
--Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.


--Aristotle

We cannot learn without pain.


--Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.


--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Greek writer, philosopher

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.


--Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.


--Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.


--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.


--Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.


--Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for
the hardest victory is over self.
--Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
--Aristotle

Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities.


--Aristotle Poetics, xxiv.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle

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