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- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- Nature does nothing in vain.
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Happiness is the highest good
- Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
- 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…
- A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
- For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle