Aristotle Quotes
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.