Aristotle quotes - page 9

Most people would rather give than get affection. (Aristotle)
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. View quote
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. View quote
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. View quote
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. View quote
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To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. View quote
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. View quote
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. View quote
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. View quote
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. View quote
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. (Aristotle)
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. View quote
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. View quote
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. View quote
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. View quote
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. View quote
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. View quote
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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. View quote
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. View quote
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. View quote
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. (Aristotle)
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. View quote
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. View quote
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. View quote
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. View quote
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