Aristotle Quotes

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• Hope is a waking dream.
• Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right…
• A friend to all is a friend to none.
• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of…
• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
• Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those…

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