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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ↗

— Aristotle

#finer #history #more #only #particular

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ↗

— Aristotle

#acts #become #brave #comes #doing

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ↗

— Aristotle

#each #excellence #friendship #good #men

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ↗

— Aristotle

#exclusive #knowledge #power #sign #teaching

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. ↗

— Aristotle

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#genuine #going #himself #instinct #liberty

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence. ↗

— Adam Arkin

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I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share. ↗

— Roone Arledge

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