Aristotle Quotes
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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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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Happiness is a sort of action.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Everyone honors the wise.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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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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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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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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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
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Those who act receive the prizes.