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“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”
―“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
―“PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”
―“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”
―“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”
―“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
―“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
―“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”
― Poetics“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
―“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incompetent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
― Nicomachean Ethics“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
―“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
―“Man is by nature a political animal.”
― Politics“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
―“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development”
―“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.”
―“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
―“The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
―“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.”
―“We become brave by doing brave acts.”
―“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”
― Politics“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
― Politics“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
―“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
―“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”
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Monday, June 27, 2022
“Anger Is A Gift” ― Aristotle
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