Aristotle Quotes
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
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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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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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What we expect, that we find.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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God has many names, though He is only one Being.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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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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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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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.