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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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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Aristotle
— Book VIII, 1155.a26

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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— Book VIII, Part V

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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

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— Politics, Book VII, Chapter IV.

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A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god.

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— Politics

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle
— A New Translation of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle (1835), 3rd. ed., Oxford: J. Vincent. p. 30

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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— Aristotle, Politics, Book VI, 1317.a40

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To perceive is to suffer.

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— Greek philosopher (384 BC - 322 BC)

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All men naturally desire knowledge.

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— Metaphysics, bk.1, ch.1, 980a (translated by H  Tredennick).

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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect. It is too exciting.

Aristotle
— Politics (c. 330 BC)

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That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

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— On the Heavens, IV. 1. As quoted by Florian Cajori (1899)

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

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— Book II, 1109.a34

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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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— Book IX, 1168.b1
Variants: 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.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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— Politics, Book I, 1253.a2

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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

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— Book I, 1253.a31

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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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— Book II, 1269.a4

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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— Book III, 1276.b34

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty .

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— Book VI, 1317.a40

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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— Politics, Book VII, 1326.a29

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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.

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— Politics, Book II, Section VI (Translation by Benjamin Jowett)

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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

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— Aristotle, Physics Bk III.5, Hardie and Gaye

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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— Politics, as translated by Benjamin Jowett.

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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— Politics, Book III, 1287.a32
— Variant: The Law is reason free from passion.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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— Politics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2).

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Friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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— 1460.a19
Variant: It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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— Aristotle, from Braude's Second Encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes.

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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)

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