Aristotle Quotes
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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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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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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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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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
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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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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.