Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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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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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
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Everyone honors the wise.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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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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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.