Aristotle Quotes, Friendship Quotes

Friendship is communion.

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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