Aristotle quotes - page 4

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. (Aristotle)
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. (Aristotle)
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. (Aristotle)
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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