Aristotle
Found 125 thoughts of Aristotle
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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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.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting.
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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.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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