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Aristotle

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.


— Aristotle


#choice #concerned #determine #determined #excellence

Hope is the dream of a waking man.


— Aristotle


#dream #man #waking

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.


— Aristotle


#most #other #persons #those #useful

We make war that we may live in peace.


— Aristotle


#live #make #may #war

Well begun is half done.


— Aristotle


#done #half #well

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.


— Aristotle


#courage #fear #mean #regard

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


— Aristotle


#best #drunken #life #neither #nor

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.


— Aristotle


#each #excellence #friendship #good #men

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.


— Aristotle


#differ #educated #living #much #uneducated

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.


— Aristotle


#best friend #friend #man #me #sake






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Did you know about Aristotle?

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world movement and other elements of Aristotelian thought. The final cause is its purpose or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. Politics

In addition to his works on ethics which address the individual Aristotle addressed the city in his work titled Politics.

All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs] Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology.

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