The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Aristotle

7 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.— filed under Character
No one loves the man whom he fears.— filed under Fear
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.— filed under Insanity
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.— filed under Justice
of Scots. PAST (THE). Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."— filed under Passion
Spring. For one swallow does not make spring, nor yet one fine day.— filed under Scripture
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.— filed under Tyranny
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