Aristotle Quotes
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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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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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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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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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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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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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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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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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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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.
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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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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.