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Philosoph, Mitglied der Akademie Platons, Erzieher von Alexander dem Großen, Werke für die Medizin-Geschichte: "De anima - Über die Seele" und "De partibus animalium - Über die Teile der Lebewesen" (Griechenland, 384 - 322 v. Chr.).

Aristoteles · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 10.01.-384 in Stagira/Thrakien
Gestorben am 31.12.-322 in Chalkis/Euböa
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.

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• Beauty is the gift of God.

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• Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

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• By the just we mean that which is lawful and that which is fair and equitable.

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• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

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• Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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• Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

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• Every art and every inquiry, as well as every practical pursuit, seems to aim at some good, whereby it has been well said that the good is that at which all things aim.

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• Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good is That at which all things aim.

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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• Friends are and aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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• Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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• Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

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• He who hath many friends, hath none.

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• He who is to be a good ruler must first have been ruled.

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• He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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• Hope is a waking dream.

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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