Aristotle quotes - page 13

The hand is the tool of tools. (Aristotle)
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. View quote
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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. View quote
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. View quote
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. View quote
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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed. View quote
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. View quote
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. View quote
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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 we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. View quote
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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes men's nature in the end. View quote
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else. (Aristotle)
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. View quote
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The actuality of thought is life. View quote
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. View quote
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. View quote
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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. View quote
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. View quote
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes it deficiencies. View quote
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. View quote
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. View quote
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. (Aristotle)
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. View quote
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. View quote
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime for one swallow does not a summer make. View quote
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. View quote
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