The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
Aristotle
Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Most people would rather get than give affection
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At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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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.
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The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
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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
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Beauty is the gift of God.
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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.
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The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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