Aristotle Quotes
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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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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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love 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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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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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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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.