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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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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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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ↗

— Aristotle

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. ↗

— 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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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ↗

— Aristotle

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ↗

— Aristotle

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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ↗

— 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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