Aristotle Quotes
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The soul is the form of the body.
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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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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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All proofs rest on premises.
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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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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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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
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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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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
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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.
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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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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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
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Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.
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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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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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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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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.