Aristotle Quotes - Page 14

• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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• Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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  Duration, Intensity, Fine

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• If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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  Art, Atheism, Woods

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• The probable is what usually happens.

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  Investing, Happens

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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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• Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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  Happiness, Beach, Ocean

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• Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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  Passion, Opposites, Soul

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• Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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  Life Is

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• Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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  Funny, Humor, Thieves

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• The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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  Children, Growth, Mind

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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  Atheist, Men, Religion

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• In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

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  Attachment, Order, Needs

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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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• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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  Art, Lying, Taught

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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• Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

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  Animal, Men, Self

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• To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

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  Numbers, Political, Poverty

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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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• For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

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  Character, May, Sovereign

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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• Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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  Forgiveness, Hate, Punishment

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2947, Delphi Classics

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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

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  Guarantees That, Guarantees, Want

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• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

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  Baby, Mean, Way

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• Nothing is what rocks dream about

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  Dream, Rocks

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• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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  Prosperity, Virtue

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