Aristotle Quotes
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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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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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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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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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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 well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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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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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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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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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.