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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. -- Aristotle | Achievement Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Achievement at Amazon.com We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. -- Aristotle | Action Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. -- Aristotle | Action Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle | Action Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle | Action Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com Well begun is half done. -- Aristotle | Action Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. -- Aristotle | Affection Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Affection at Amazon.com Most people would rather give than get affection. -- Aristotle | Affection Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Affection at Amazon.com 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 | Anger Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Anger at Amazon.com 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 | Anger Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Anger at Amazon.com At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. -- Aristotle | Animals Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Animals at Amazon.com Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. -- Aristotle | Beauty Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Beauty at Amazon.com Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. -- Aristotle | Beauty Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Beauty at Amazon.com Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. -- Aristotle | Character Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Character at Amazon.com Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle | Character Send to friend | View Books by Aristotle at Amazon.com | Books about Character at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 116 Pages: 1 of 8 next  View all quotes