Aristotle Quotes
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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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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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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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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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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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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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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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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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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.
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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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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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The intention makes the crime.
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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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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.