Aristotle Quotes
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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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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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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
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Through discipline comes freedom.
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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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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.
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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.