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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Aristotle
Life, Inspire, Excellence
Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Aristotle
Life, Time, Memories
"'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle
Life, Friendship, True Friend
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Aristotle
Life, Political, Politics

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aristotle
Life, Philosophical, Fancy

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle
Inspirational, Life, God

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Aristotle
Life, Philosophy, Educational
"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Aristotle
Life, Men, Cost
Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.89, Aristotle

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
Life, Nature, Preparation
Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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