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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

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