Aristotle Quotes
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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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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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Adventure is worthwhile.
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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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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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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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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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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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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.