Quotes by Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one’s duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is b — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that o — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic o — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temp — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
A man without regrets cannot be cured. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace. — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of exce — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amus — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics