Aristotle Quotes

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may meet with great misfortunes.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
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The soul is characterised by these capacities: self-nutrition, sensation, thinking and movement.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
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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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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
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