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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Nature does nothing uselessly.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Metaphysica
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, ch. 7, sct. 1177b
- The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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