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• 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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• Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Starting, Metaphysics

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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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• There is honor in being a dog.

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  Dog, Honor

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• Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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  Light, Soul, Reason

  Aristotle (1926). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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  Philosophical, Tyrants, People

  Aristotle (1971). “On Man in the Universe”

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• Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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  Ambition, Men, Desire

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• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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  Music, Passion, Character

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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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• For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

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  Determination, Animal, Men

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.201, Collector's Library

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• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

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  Political, Together, Association

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

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  Eye, Thinking, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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  Men, Mind, Hearing

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

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

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• The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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  Soul, Suffering, Body

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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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• Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

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  Mean, Two, Goodness

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• The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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  Courage, Men, Brave

  Aristotle, John Burnet (1967). “Aristotle on Education: Extracts from the Ethics and Politics”, p.63, CUP Archive

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