Aristotle Quotes - Page 12

• Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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  Responsibility, Self, Sufficiency

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• The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.451, Princeton University Press

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• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

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  Lying, Two, Soul

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• A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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  Men, Ought

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nature does nothing in vain.

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  Philosophical, Doe, Vain

  Aristotle (2002). “Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals”, p.260, Clarendon Press

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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  Spiritual, Kindness, Men

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• Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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  Mean, Desire, Purpose

  Aristotle (1879). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”

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• Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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  Freedom, Philosophical, Men

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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  Two, Soul, Body

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• One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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  God, Done, Can Do

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.184

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• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

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• Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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  Plato, Truth Is, My Friends

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• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

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  Inspirational, Business, Work

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• Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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  Business, Action, Virtue

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• The soul never thinks without a picture.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

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• Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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  Movement, Time Management, Management

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• It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

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  Truth, Would Be

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• You should never think without an image.

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  Thinking, Should

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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• That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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  Impossible, Improbable

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• When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

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  Divinity, Intimate, Lacking Something

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• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

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  Men, Evil, Human Nature

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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  Lying, Philosophical, Perfect

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• Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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  Mean, May, Persuasion

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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