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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
~ Aristotle - [Society]
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
~ Aristotle - [Soul]
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~ Aristotle - [Suffering]
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~ Aristotle - [Truth]
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
~ Aristotle - [Virtue]
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~ Aristotle - [Virtue]
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
~ Aristotle - [Pleasure]
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
~ Aristotle - [Poetry and Poets]
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~ Aristotle - [Politicians and Politics]
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
~ Aristotle - [Praise]
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