Aristotle Quotes
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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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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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
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Plot is character revealed by action.
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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.