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- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- A friend is a second self.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- 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.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
- Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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