Aristotle quotes - page 8

Law is mind without reason. (Aristotle)
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. View quote
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. View quote
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. View quote
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. View quote
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. View quote
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms. View quote
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The law is reason unaffected by desire. View quote
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. View quote
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. View quote
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. (Aristotle)
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. View quote
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. View quote
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. View quote
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. View quote
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. View quote
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. View quote
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. View quote
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. View quote
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. View quote
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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)
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. View quote
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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it. View quote
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. View quote
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. View quote
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