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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ↗

— Aristotle

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ↗

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ↗

— Aristotle

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ↗

— Aristotle

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ↗

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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