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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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

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Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

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People generally despise where they flatter.

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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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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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All proofs rest on premises.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

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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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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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