Aristotle Quotes
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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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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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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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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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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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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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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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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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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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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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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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.