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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

~Aristotle

Topics: Banquet Best Drunken Life Neither Nor Rise Thirsty

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

~Aristotle

Topics: Forms Gold Impress Iron Itself Matter Piece Power Receiving Sense Sensible Takes Things Wax Way Which Without

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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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Topics: Against Complete Formation Ground Habit Indeed Moral Nature Neither Nor Prepares Produced Product Reception Then Us Virtues

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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Topics: Choose Friends Goods Had He Live Other Though Without Would

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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Topics: Beast Because Either God He Himself Live Must Need Society Sufficient Unable Who

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Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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Topics: Friendly Hostile Judgments Our Pleased Same

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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Topics: Attribute Change Count Exist Impossible Mind Nothing Only Qualified Soul Time Unless Which Without

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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Topics: Fond Gods Joke Too

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

~Aristotle

Topics: Absolutely Any Arises Because Claim Democracy Equal Equally Free Men Notion Out Respect Respects Those Who

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

~Aristotle

Topics: Anything Asked Been Cannot Count Counted Did Either Evidently Exist Fairly May Number Question Someone Soul Time Whether Would

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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