Aristotle Quotes - Page 12

• Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Parent, Birth Control, Poverty

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle,

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• People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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  People, Together, Salt

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• Happiness is the highest good

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Highest

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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• To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

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  Anger, Men, Rage

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• He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

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  Pleasure, Depraved, Insensible

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• It is likely that unlikely things should happen

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  Unlikely, Should, Happens

  Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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• Human beings are curious by nature.

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  Educational, Curious, Humans

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• Law is mind without reason.

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  Law, Mind, Reason

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• Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

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  Government, Law, Ifs

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• Law is order, and good law is good order.

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  Order, Law, Rule Of Law

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

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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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• All art is concerned with coming into being.

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  Art, Art Is, Concerned

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

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• Happiness is activity.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• You should never think without an image.

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  Thinking, Should

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• Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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  Curiosity, Desire, Wonder

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.66, Aeterna Press

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• Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

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  Wisdom, Men, Knowing

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

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

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  Responsibility, Self, Sufficiency

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• The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

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  Knowing, Sick, Judging

  De Republica III.16

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• The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

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  Business, War, Goal

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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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• The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

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  War, Men, Bad Man

  Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.99

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• The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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  Men, Differences, Ignorant

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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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