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Aristotle

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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.
4.3 · 20 votes · 194 reads
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Feelings
Most people would rather give than get affection.
4.2 · 50 votes · 91 reads
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Defects
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
4.3 · 41 votes · 46 reads
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Defects
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
3.7 · 30 votes · 88 reads
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Thought and Reason
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
4.4 · 27 votes · 129 reads
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Virtues
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
4.8 · 20 votes · 80 reads
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Virtues
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
3.7 · 16 votes · 120 reads
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Thought and Reason
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
4.7 · 7 votes · 146 reads
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Various
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
3.4 · 5 votes · 78 reads
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Art and Culture
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
4.1 · 35 votes · 6 reads
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Various
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
4.4 · 10 votes · 40 reads
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Various
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
3.0 · 12 votes · 89 reads
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Nature
So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
3.7 · 36 votes · 11 reads
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Feelings
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
3.6 · 30 votes · 15 reads
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Feelings
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
3.5 · 7 votes · 114 reads
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Virtues
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
3.4 · 29 votes · 24 reads
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Various
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
4.1 · 28 votes · 145 reads
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Art and Culture
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
4.3 · 30 votes · 178 reads
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Nature
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
4.5 · 24 votes · 61 reads
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Various
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
3.7 · 58 votes · 29 reads
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Virtues
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
3.2 · 21 votes · 48 reads
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Government and Politics
The law is reason, free from passion.
3.9 · 5 votes · 57 reads
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Thought and Reason
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
3.6 · 33 votes · 153 reads
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Various
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 their complete formation is the product of habit.
3.4 · 17 votes · 195 reads
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Society
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either
3.6 · 30 votes · 79 reads
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Art and Culture
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
5.0 · 15 votes · 141 reads
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Art and Culture
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
4.6 · 27 votes · 82 reads
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Virtues
The secret to humor is surprise.
3.4 · 58 votes · 105 reads
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Thought and Reason
The soul never thinks without a picture.
3.8 · 5 votes · 81 reads
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Feelings
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
4.5 · 29 votes · 200 reads
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Society
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
4.5 · 35 votes · 58 reads
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Society
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
4.8 · 58 votes · 158 reads
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Various
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
4.0 · 19 votes · 191 reads
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Time
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
4.5 · 43 votes · 163 reads
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Virtues
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
4.8 · 29 votes · 178 reads
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Government and Politics
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
4.9 · 46 votes · 75 reads
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Society
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
4.6 · 5 votes · 191 reads
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Art and Culture
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
4.9 · 20 votes · 176 reads
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Feelings
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
3.8 · 54 votes · 8 reads
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Art and Culture
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
4.2 · 32 votes · 197 reads
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