Aristotle Quotes
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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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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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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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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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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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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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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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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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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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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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 true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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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.