Aristotle
Found 127 thoughts of Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Between friends there is no need of justice.
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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.
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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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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
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One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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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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The soul can not think without a picture.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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