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(801 votes)   Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(790 votes)   The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(675 votes)   For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(660 votes)   Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(603 votes)   Cruel is the strife of brothers.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(585 votes)   Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(530 votes)   It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.

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(506 votes)   The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(485 votes)   Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

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BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(476 votes)   To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

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(466 votes)   Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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(449 votes)   The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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(435 votes)   Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

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(425 votes)   It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

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(363 votes)   Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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