Aristotle Quotes
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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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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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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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Through discipline comes freedom.
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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 in style is to have a command of metaphor.
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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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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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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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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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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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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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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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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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For good is simple, evil manifold.
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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.