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Aristotle
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Groups: Philosophers
Nationlity: Greeks

Aristotle

Quotes: (ranking: 620th)
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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." Beauty 4.5 avg (2 votes)
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Art 4.7 avg (12 votes)
"The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men." Marriage 3.9 avg (17 votes)
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." Education 4.7 avg (10 votes)
"The gods too are fond of a joke." God 4.7 avg (7 votes)
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." Truth & Lies 4.5 avg (4 votes)
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Education 4.7 avg (35 votes)
"The secret to humor is surprise." Humor 3.3 avg (12 votes)
"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so." Virtue 4.2 avg (5 votes)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." Success 4.8 avg (154 votes)
"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Miscellaneous 4.6 avg (18 votes)
"We make war that we may live in peace." War & Peace 4.6 avg (28 votes)
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." Miscellaneous 4.7 avg (7 votes)
"Wit is educated insolence." Education 4.8 avg (21 votes)
"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." Youth 4.1 avg (8 votes)


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