Aristotle quotes - page 14

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, and so there will be no unity and completeness. (Aristotle)
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. View quote
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A man is the origin of his action. View quote
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. View quote
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. View quote
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. View quote
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. View quote
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. View quote
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. View quote
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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. View quote
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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon. (Aristotle)
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. View quote
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure. View quote
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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. View quote
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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty. View quote
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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things. View quote
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. View quote
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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. View quote
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. View quote
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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. View quote
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Between friends there is no need of justice. (Aristotle)
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. View quote
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So it is naturally with the male and the female the one is superior, the other inferior the one governs, the other is governed and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. View quote
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All art is concerned with coming into being. View quote
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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state. View quote
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