Aristotle Quotes
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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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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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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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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The secret to humor is surprise.
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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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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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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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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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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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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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Authority is no source for Truth.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.