Aristotle - Man Quotes

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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

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May not we then confidently pronounce that man happy who realizes complete goodness in action, and is adequately furnished with external goods? Or should we add, that he must also be destined to go on living not for any casual period but throughout a complete lifetime in the same manner, and to die accordingly, because the future is hidden from us, and we conceive happiness as an end, something utterly and absolutely final and complete? If this is so, we shall pronounce those of the living who possess and are destined to go on possessing the good things we have specified to be supremely blessed, though on the human scale of bliss.

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To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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