Aristotle Quotes
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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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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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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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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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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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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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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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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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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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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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.