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| For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Well begun is half done. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Most people would rather give than get affection. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Education is the best provision for old age. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Cruel is the strife of brothers. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Without friends no one would choose to live. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'' | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Friendship is essentially a partnership. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| A true friend is one soul in two bodies. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
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