Aristotle Quotes - 2
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5: The Peripatetics, "Aristotle," 9. 
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More Aristotle Quotes - 2
One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle— Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1098.a18 (349 BC).
For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle— Book II, 1103.a33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
Aristotle— Book VIII, Part V
Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle— Book II, 1389.b11
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
Aristotle— 1455.a33
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle— Poetics (335) 1451b 6.
A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god.
Aristotle— Politics
All men naturally desire knowledge.
Aristotle— Metaphysics, bk.1, ch.1, 980a (translated by H Tredennick).
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect. It is too exciting.
Aristotle— Politics (c. 330 BC)
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
Aristotle— On the Heavens, IV. 1. As quoted by Florian Cajori (1899)
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Aristotle— Book II, 1109.a34
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
Aristotle— Book IX, 1168.b1Variants: My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle— Politics, Book I, 1253.a2
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Aristotle— Book I, 1253.a31
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle— Book II, 1269.a4
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
Aristotle— Book III, 1276.b34
The basis of a democratic state is liberty .
Aristotle— Book VI, 1317.a40
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle— Politics, Book VII, 1326.a29
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle— Politics, Book II, Section VI (Translation by Benjamin Jowett)
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
Aristotle— Aristotle, Physics Bk III.5, Hardie and Gaye
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle— Politics, as translated by Benjamin Jowett.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
Aristotle— Politics, Book III, 1287.a32
— Variant: The Law is reason free from passion.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle— Politics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2).
Friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle— 1460.a19Variant: It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle— Aristotle, from Braude's Second Encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler they consider god-fearing and pious.
Aristotle— Jews, Myth and History: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Belief... (pg. 25)
