Aesop and Aristotle...Quotations
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Aesop
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
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Plodding wins the race.
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The gods help them that help themselves.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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United we stand, divided we fall.
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Picture of a Bust of Aristotle
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Aristotle
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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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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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.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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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.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.
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That in the soul which is called the mind, before it thinks,is not actually any real thing.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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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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The secret to humor is surprise.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Well begun is half done.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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