Aristotle on Birthday
384 BC–322 BC Greece
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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
To be able without hindrance to exercise his preeminent quality, whatever its nature, is real happiness.
One thing alone not even God can do,
To make undone whatever hath been done.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.
Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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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Happiness depends upon ourselves
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