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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

By Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

By Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

By Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

By Aristotle

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

By Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

By Aristotle

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.

By Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

By Aristotle

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.

By Aristotle

Evil draws men together.

By Aristotle

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

By Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

By Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

By Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

By Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

By Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

By Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

By Aristotle

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

By Aristotle

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

By Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet.

By Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

By Aristotle

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

By Aristotle

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

By Aristotle

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy.

By Aristotle

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 and is not easy

By Aristotle

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 and is not easy.

By Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

By Aristotle

All proofs rest on premises.

By Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

By Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

By Aristotle