Aristotle

=Aristotle=

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1. A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

2. A friend is a second self.

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

4. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

5. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

6. Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

7. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

8. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

9. The gods too are fond of a joke.

10. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

11. Evil brings men together.

12. I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

13. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

14. All men by nature desire knowledge.

15. Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

17. Law is order, and good law is good order.

18. They should rule who are able to rule best.

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

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