Aristotle Quotes
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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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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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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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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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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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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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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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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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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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.
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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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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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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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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.