Aristotle Quotes, Courageous Quotes

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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Those who act receive the prizes.

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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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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.

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For good is simple, evil manifold.

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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

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The intention makes the crime.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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