Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle

Profession : Philosopher

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

Aristotle

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

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

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There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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Well begun is half done.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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Nature does nothing in vain.

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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He who hath many friends hath none.

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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