Aristotle Quotes
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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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The intention makes the crime.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.