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Aristotle
Greek philosopher and scientist; b. -384; d. -322
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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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# · Not So Good (32 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 2003)
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
# · Not So Good (28 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue
The Art of Rhetoric (paperback)# · Not So Good (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
# · Not So Good (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
# · Not So Good (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
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