Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness is activity.
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings
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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
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Man by Nature desires to know.
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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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