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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

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“To perceive is to suffer.”

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“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”

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“Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book I, 1369a.5
Rhetoric
Variant: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire
Source: Selected Works

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle book Metaphysics

Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: Metaphysics

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

Aristotle

“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd”

Aristotle

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”

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“Well begun is half done.”

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“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

Aristotle

“It is thought that justice is equality, and so it is, though not for everybody but only for those who are equals; and it is thought that inequality is just, for so indeed it is, though not for everybody, but for those who are unequal.”

Aristotle book Politics

Source: Politics, III. V. 8., https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml

“The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasure, and hence they approve a life of sensual enjoyment.”

Aristotle

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I), Bk. 1, Chapter III

“If a man knows what it is right to do, he does not require a formal reason. And a person that has been thus trained, either possesses these first principles already, or can easily acquire them.”

Aristotle

Bk I, Ch II
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

Aristotle

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

Aristotle

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

Aristotle

“He who hath many friends hath none.”

Aristotle

“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Book I, 1096a.16
Nicomachean Ethics

“Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Book III, 5.12
Nicomachean Ethics
Variant: Now not to know that it is from the exercise of activities on particular objects that states of character are produced is the mark of a thoroughly senseless person.