Aristotle Quotes
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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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A friend is another I.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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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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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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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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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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It is no easy task to be good.