Aristotle

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

— Aristotle

The actuality of thought is life.

— Aristotle

Through discipline comes freedom.

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Either a beast or a god.

— Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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We become brave by doing brave acts.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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Law is mind without reason.

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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

— Aristotle

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

— Aristotle

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

— Aristotle

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.

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Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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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…

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“Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.”

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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the…

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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of…

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than…

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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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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…

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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it…

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness…

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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things…

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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which…

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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,…

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy…

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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in…

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And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as…

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“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he…

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“A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to…

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Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they…

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“Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that…

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“For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have…

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“But with regard to incomposites, what is being or not being, and truth or falsity? A thing of this sort is not…

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem…

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