Aristotle Quotes
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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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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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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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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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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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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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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What we expect, that we find.
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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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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Greed has no boundaries.
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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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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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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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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.