Aristotle Quotes
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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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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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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 unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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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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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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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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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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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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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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One has no friend who has many friends.