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Aristotle Quotes

«This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.»
«If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.»
«While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.»
«Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.»
«Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard»
«The moral virtues, then, are produced in us, neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.»
«In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.»
«We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us»
«To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men»
«Most people would rather get than give affection»