Aristotle Quotes
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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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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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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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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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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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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Law is mind without reason.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.