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Aristotle, a renowned Greek philosopher, is one of the founders of Western philosophy. His thoughts covered a wide range of fields, including ethics, logic, politics, and had a profound impact on the world.

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“Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.”

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“Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.”

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“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.”

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“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.”

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“Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.”

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“But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.”

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“Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.”

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“Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.”

Source: Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition)

“Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.”

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“There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.”

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“Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.”

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“Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.”

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“Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.”

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“We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.”

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Book:Pocket Aristotle

Source: Pocket Aristotle

“Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.”

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Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics