Aristotle Quotes
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.
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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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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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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.