Greek - Philosopher | 384 BC - 322 BC
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
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Change in all things is sweet.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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