Aristotle

For good is simple, evil manifold.

— Aristotle

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has…

— Aristotle

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving…

— Aristotle

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how…

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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be…

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer…

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way…

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong…

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small…

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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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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The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is…

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are…

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

— Aristotle