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Good Quotes by Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good…
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and…
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has…
- It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
- It is no easy task to be good.
- If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
- What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
- The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it…
- Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
- ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating…
- Happiness is the highest good
- 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 Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences…
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad…
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good…
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams