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Best Aristotle Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.”

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train noble natures not to desire more, and mean ones to fear less.”

“The good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.”

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all the other goods.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“The hardest victory is over self.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“We must not listen to those who advise us to think as mortal beings, but must live as if immortal.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

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Service isn't doing what's expected of us. Service is doing more than what's expected of us.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

“The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.”

Trade your expectations for appreciation and your whole world changes in an instant.

Your customary thoughts, all except the rarest of your friends, even most of your luggage - everything, in fact, which belongs to your everyday life, is merely a hindrance.

Desire is the first element of realization.

"Diotima observes that people strive for immortal fame through virtuous deeds."

"Love is the eldest and noblest and mightiest of the gods; and the chiefs author and giver of virtue in life, and of happiness after death."

The universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figure it out.

Success often gives an action the whole honest glamour of a good conscience; failure casts the shadow of remorse over the most estimable deed.

"Until philosophers are kings... and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, cities will never have rest from their evils."