Aristotle Quotes
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Those who act receive the prizes.
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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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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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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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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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Adventure is worthwhile.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
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There is honor in being a dog.
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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.