Aristotle Quotes
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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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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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.
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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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...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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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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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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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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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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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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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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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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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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.