Aristotle Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
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I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
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It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
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I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
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I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.
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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
