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| Aristotle Quotes |
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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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.
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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.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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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.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle