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Become Quotes by Aristotle
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right…
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave…
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- We must become just be doing just acts.
- We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
- Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by…
- for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been…
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad…
- Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some…
- People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
- Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing…
- If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
- Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
- Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing…
- The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.
- The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in…
- Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the…
- Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
- Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
- We become brave by doing brave acts.
More Become Quotes
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong