Aristotle Quotes
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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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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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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What we expect, that we find.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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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.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.