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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

• 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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• If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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• If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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• In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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• It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

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• It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not well organized.

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• Law is a form of order, and good law must necessarily mean good order.

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• Man is as much the cause of his deeds, as he is the father of his children.

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• Man is by nature a political animal.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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• Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

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• Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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• Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

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• Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

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• No exellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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• No one loves the man whom he fears.

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• No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

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• Now, we may say that the most important subjects about which all men deliberate and deliberative orators harangue, are five in number, to wit: ways and means, war and peace, the defence of the country, imports and exports, legislation.

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• Of all the varieties of virtue, liberality is the most beloved.

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