Aristotle Quotes - Page 17

• Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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  Men, Good Man, Moral

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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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• No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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  Men, Generous Spirit, Indulge In

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• It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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  Grateful, Views, Agreement

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

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• Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

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  Beauty, People, May

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

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• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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  Prosperity, Virtue

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• He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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  Men, Class, Slave

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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  Eye, Thinking, Done

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• A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

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  Soul, Body, Shapes

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• Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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  Education, Men, Years

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2118, Princeton University Press

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• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

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  Mother, Invention, Creator

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• There is honor in being a dog.

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  Dog, Honor

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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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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

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  Soul, Perception, Growth

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

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  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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• A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

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  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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  Happiness, Flow, Virtue

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• All men are alike when asleep.

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  Men, Essence

  Aristotle (2011). “The Eudemian Ethics”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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  Art, Causes, Action

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

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  Educational, Teaching, Justice

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• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

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  Character, Mind, Three

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• For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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  Thinking, Principles, Analysis

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Physics”, p.11, Aeterna Press

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