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• Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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  Cost, Trouble, Coping

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

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• Anybody can get hit over the head.

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• When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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  Inspirational, Smart, Dumb

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• The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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  Soul, Sitting, Prudent

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• He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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  Enemy, Overcoming, Stout

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

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

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  Men, Born, Nature Of Man

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

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  Men, Desire, Sisyphus

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• You are what you do repeatedly.

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• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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  Love, Friendship, Family

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

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  Important, Too Late, Half

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• Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

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  Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.415, Hackett Publishing

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• We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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  Friendship, Wish, Should

  See Bible 225; Chesterfield 4; Confucius 9; Hillel 2

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

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  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

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  Success, Education, Simplicity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

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  Able, Action, Study

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

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  Numbers, Political, Poverty

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• It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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  Science, Physicians, Use

  Politics VII.ii

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• To love someone is to identify with them.

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  Love, Love Someone

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• Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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  Would Be, Claims, Following

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• A friend is another I.

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  Friendship

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• Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Educational

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• The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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  Distraction, States, Factions

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• A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

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  Men, Beast, Harm

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

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  Ambition, Exercise, Self

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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