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Aristotle

Aristotle





Birthdate: 383 BC
Birthplace: Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece
Date of Death: 322 BC

Occupation: Philosopher and Scientist
Profile: Student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. A founder of Western Philosophy.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Number of Quotes: 8





Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.

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