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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit (Aristotle Quotes)
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first (Aristotle Quotes)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self (Aristotle Quotes)
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech (Aristotle Quotes)
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought (Aristotle Quotes)
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world (Aristotle Quotes)
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts (Aristotle Quotes)
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye (Aristotle Quotes)
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world (Aristotle Quotes)
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more (Aristotle Quotes)
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes (Aristotle Quotes)
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last (Aristotle Quotes)
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action (Aristotle Quotes)
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one (Aristotle Quotes)
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions (Aristotle Quotes)
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful (Aristotle Quotes)
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite (Aristotle Quotes)
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it (Aristotle Quotes)
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship (Aristotle Quotes)
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one (Aristotle Quotes)
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 (Aristotle Quotes)
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong (Aristotle Quotes)
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition (Aristotle Quotes)
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him (Aristotle Quotes)
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal (Aristotle Quotes)
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper (Aristotle Quotes)
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes (Aristotle Quotes)
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires (Aristotle Quotes)
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage (Aristotle Quotes)
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things (Aristotle Quotes)