Aristotle Quotes
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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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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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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You are what you do repeatedly.
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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All communication must lead to change.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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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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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.