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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle
Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend
In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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

Aristotle
Wish, Should, Turns

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Aristotle
Guarantees That, Guarantees, Want

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Aristotle
Divinity, Intimate, Lacking Something

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

Aristotle
Struggle, Democracy, Majority

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle
Inspirational, Education, Learning
"Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 980a.21,

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Aristotle
Knowing, Missing, Truth Is

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

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Revenge, Anger, Character
Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle
Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation
Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Aristotle
Mean, Bravery, Excess
Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Aristotle
God, Done, Can Do
Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.184

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Aristotle
Parenting, People, Young

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

Aristotle
Spring, Exercise, Men

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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Duration, Intensity, Fine

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Aristotle
Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Aristotle
Friendship, Uplifting, Feelings

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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Sweet, Wine, Science
Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.582, Princeton University Press

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle
Freedom, Equality, Men
"Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1301a.29-31),

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

Aristotle
Firsts, Gateways, Senses

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Aristotle
Friendship, Advantage, Possessed

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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Time, Power, Lapses
Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Aristotle
Teaching, Knowledge, Intellectual
Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.208, Princeton University Press

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Aristotle
Business, War, Goal

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Aristotle
Impossible, Improbable

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

Aristotle
War, Men, Bad Man
Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.99

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