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Best Aristotle Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Hope is a waking dream.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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"Prayed for inner beauty and harmony of soul and body over material wealth."

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

"Your share of matter, time, and fate is tiny."

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

"Who have not acquired wealth in their youth, pine away, like old herons in a lake without fish."

Victims of their very success the explorers now pretty much stay home.

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquility.