"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
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Aristotle
51 quotes
Quotes by Aristotle
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"The secret to humor is surprise."
"To perceive is to suffer."
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
"Hope is a waking dream."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"Happiness is a state of activity."
"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."