Aristotle Quotes
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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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Evils draw men together.
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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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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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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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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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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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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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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.