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Self Quotes by Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
- We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
- The hardest victory is the victory over self.
- Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
- It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when…
- 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 most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of…
- The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
- Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and…
- Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
- When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in…
- A friend is a second self.
- No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
- A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
- Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.…
- Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
- Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
- The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
- A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
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