Aristotle Quotes
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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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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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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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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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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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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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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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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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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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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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 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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All proofs rest on premises.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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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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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.