Aristotle

(322 votes)   ...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater...

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(291 votes)   Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(280 votes)   All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(253 votes)   Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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(253 votes)   We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(249 votes)   Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(245 votes)   Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

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(241 votes)   The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(240 votes)   For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(234 votes)   Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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(229 votes)   It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(228 votes)   Either a beast or a god.

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(226 votes)   Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

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(225 votes)   Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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(223 votes)   It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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