Aristotle Quotes
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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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All proofs rest on premises.
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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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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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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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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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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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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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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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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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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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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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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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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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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.