Aristotle Quotes
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.
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Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
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The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
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Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
