Aristotle Quotes, Eye Quotes

Perception starts with the eye.

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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

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In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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The soul never thinks without a picture.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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You are what you repeatedly do

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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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We work to earn our leisure.

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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

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