Aristotle Quotes
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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You should never think without an image.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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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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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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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
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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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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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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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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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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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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.