Aristotle Quotes
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.