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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ↗

— Aristotle

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ↗

— Aristotle

#desires #down #increase #increased #means

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ↗

— Aristotle

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ↗

— Aristotle

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ↗

— Aristotle

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ↗

— Aristotle

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ↗

— Aristotle

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. ↗

— Aristotle

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

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But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in. ↗

— Roone Arledge

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