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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
- Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
- Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle