Aristotle Quotes
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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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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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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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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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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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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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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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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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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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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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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 greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.