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  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
  • The end of labor is to gain leisure.
  • Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
  • Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
  • In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
  • Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
  • We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
  • Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
  • Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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  • Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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  • Aristotle Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
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  • Aristotle A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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  • Aristotle Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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  • Aristotle Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
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  • Aristotle Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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  • Aristotle A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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  • Aristotle Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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  • Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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  • Aristotle Education is the best provision for old age.
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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  • Aristotle Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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  • Aristotle All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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  • Aristotle Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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  • Aristotle Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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  • Aristotle Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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  • Aristotle The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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  • Aristotle All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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