Aristotle Quotes
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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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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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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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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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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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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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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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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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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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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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.