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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Quote by Aristotel about mother, suffering, children, reason

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only give them life and beside this give them the art of living well, through education.

Quote by Aristotel about education, children, art, magic, life

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue, rightness, man

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Quote by Aristotel about rest, life

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Quote by Aristotel about cowardice, problems, death

To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies”.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, soul

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Quote by Aristotel about tragedy, emotions, attention, action, fear

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, habits

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, action

We make war that we may live in peace.

Quote by Aristotel about war, peace

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, body, soul

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Quote by Aristotel about praise, rightness, people, moment, time, man

Well begun is half done.

Quote by Aristotel about good

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Quote by Aristotel about power

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Quote by Aristotel about politics, virtue, character, moral

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, work

Wit is educated insolence.

Quote by Aristotel about intelligence

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Quote by Aristotel about courage, quality, mind, world, contentment

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Quote by Aristotel about people, youth, hope