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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
- Aristotle
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Aristotle
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Aristotle
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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
- Aristotle
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Aristotle
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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.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle
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We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
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The excess of virtue is a vice.
- Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
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Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
- Aristotle
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient
- Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
- Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle
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