Aristotle Quotes
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents.
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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.