For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. - Aristotle

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotelēs; 384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the teacher of Theophrastus and founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology and government. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. It was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry. As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.

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Native Name: Ἀριστοτέλης
Alternative Names: the Stagirite Aristotelis Aristoteles
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Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point.

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