Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
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Well begun is half done.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
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