Aristotle Quotes - Page 16

• It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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  Character, People, Action

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• Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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  Mean, Bravery, Excess

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing

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• The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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  Men, Two, Want

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

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  Writing, Law, Justice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

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  Class, States, Middle

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3167, Modern Library

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• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

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

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• He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

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  Nature, Science, Views

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• The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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  Judging, Guests, Cooks

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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  Wise, People, Effort

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

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  Teacher, Children, Good Life

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• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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  Life, Philosophical, Survival

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• One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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  Community, Citizens, Common

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

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• If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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  Wish, Should, Turns

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• Philosophy begins with wonder.

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  Philosophy, Science, Technology

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• The intention makes the crime.

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  Integrity, Hypocrisy, Identity

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• Perception starts with the eye.

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  Eye, Perception

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• As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

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  Children, Husband, Loss

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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• All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

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  Earthquakes, Warning, World

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• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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  Knowledge, Errors, Hands

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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  Lying, Government, Political

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• Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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  Injustice, Results

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• The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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  Soul, Ends, Goods

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• Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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  Pain, Perception, Desire

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• Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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  Character, Self, Support

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