Aristotle Quotes
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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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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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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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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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Evils draw men together.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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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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What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.