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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed…
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but…
- We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with…
- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are…
- So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
- Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness…
- Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the…
- If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a…
- It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely…
- Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
- We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
- Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are…
- Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
- Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
- When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote…
- It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the…
- A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
- We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar