Aristotle Quotes
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Law is mind without reason.
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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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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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He who hath many friends hath none.
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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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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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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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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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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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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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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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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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You should never think without an image.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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Greed has no boundaries.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.