Aristotle

Ancient Greece
-384 // -322
Philosopher

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
All men by nature desire to know
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire
A true friend is one soul in two bodies
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays