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― Aristotle“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
―“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
―“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
―“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
― Selected Works“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
― The Philosophy of Aristotle“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
―“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
―“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“Wit is educated insolence.”
―“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Metaphysics“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
―“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
― Politics“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
―“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
―“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
―“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
―“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
―“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
―“Happiness is a state of activity.”
―“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
―“Through discipline comes freedom.”
―“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
―“The secret to humor is surprise.”
―“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
―“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
―“We make war that we may live in peace.”
―“A friend is a second self.”
―“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
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Monday, June 27, 2022
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
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