Aristotle Quotes

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and trust.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Democracy comes from the idea that those who are equal in all respects are equal in all respects, because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not men of property, are the rulers.
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Different people look for happiness in different ways and in different forms, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Dignity consists not in possession of honor, but they win.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Even when laws are written, they should not always unchanged.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is supposed to fight for something good, and for this reason, the good has rightly identified as that which all things aim.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather those that we have, because we did well. We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Excellence, then a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this is determined by reason and the way the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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To the eyes of bats for the storm of the day, so why in our souls the things of nature most evident of all.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, not even one day, and so too, one day, or a short time, not a man blessed and happy.
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For though we love the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Friendship is one soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Happiness depends on ourselves.
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