Aristotle Quotes
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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You are what you do repeatedly.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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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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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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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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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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There is honor in being a dog.
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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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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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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.