Aristotle

A man is the origin of his action.

— Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do.

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Anybody can get hit over the head.

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Happiness is self-connectedness.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

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Love well, be loved and do something of value.

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.

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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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“Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.”

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and…

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand…

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…

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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to…

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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not…

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“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and…

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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the…

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“If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is…

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in…

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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men…

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“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who…

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law…

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It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but…

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that…

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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like…

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

— Aristotle