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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
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Often given as a saying of Aristotle with no reference.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves
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An interpretative gloss of Aristotle's position in Nicomachean Ethics book 1 section 9, tacitly inserted by J. A. K. Thomson in his English translation The Ethics of Aristotle (1955). The original Greek at [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pe
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for goals.
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Attributed to Aristotle in Bernhoff A. Dahl, [http://books.google.gr/books?id=B1Z2XP_DamQC&dq= Optimize Your Life!], Trionics International Inc., 2005, p. 111.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, [http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q= Religion and the Pursuit of Truth], Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in [http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q= American Opinion, Volume 24], Rob
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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"The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities", translated from Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités, an Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia (1970), p. 72; translated fr
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The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of "disordered" but of "ordered universe" upon the whole.
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Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mundo, [https://archive.org/stream/worksofaristotle03arisuoft#page/n181/mode/2up/search/heavenly 399a]
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A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
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p. 188; also reported in various sources as:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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p. 187
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Liars ... when they speak the truth they are not believed.
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I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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