Aristotle Quotes, Lying Quotes, Mean Quotes

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

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The actuality of thought is life.

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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

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All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

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Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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