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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

By Aristotle

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

By Aristotle

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best

By Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace

By Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do.

By Aristotle

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

By Aristotle

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

By Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

By Aristotle

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

By Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer.

By Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

By Aristotle

To love someone is to identify with them.

By Aristotle

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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

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Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

By Aristotle

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

By Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

By Aristotle

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

By Aristotle

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

By Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

By Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

By Aristotle