"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle on freedom
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on hope
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"The secret to humor is surprise."

Aristotle on humor
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"Bad men are full of repentance."

Aristotle on repentance   

"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."

Aristotle on punishment   

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle on poverty and the poor
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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

Aristotle on possibilities
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

Aristotle on beauty
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on pleasure
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"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle on parents and parenting
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"All men by nature desire to know."

Aristotle on nature
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"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 on morality
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"It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken."

Aristotle on moderation   

"It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken."

Aristotle on moderation
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle on animals
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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 on anger
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."

Aristotle on leisure
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

Aristotle on leisure
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"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."

Maxim, Samurai on anger
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