Aristotle Quotes About Youth
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.
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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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