Aristotle Quotes - Page 20

• Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

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  Revenge, Anger, Character

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• Evil draws men together.

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  Men, Evil, Together

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• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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  Happiness, Independence, May

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• Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

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  Happiness, Perfect, Soul

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wickedness is nourished by lust.

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  Lust, Wickedness

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• Those who act receive the prizes.

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  Prize

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• Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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  Marriage, Husband, Men

  Aristotle (1963). “Ethics”, Dutton Adult

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• Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

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  Community, Together, Seems

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• The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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  Expression, Excellence, Lows

  Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.58, University of Michigan Press

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• It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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  Action, Virtue, Produce

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

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  Long Distance Relationship, Break Off, Doe

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1829, Princeton University Press

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• For good is simple, evil manifold.

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  Simple, Evil, Manifold

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

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• Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

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  Moving, Moved

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• Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

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  Men, Order, Opinion

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

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• Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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  Kindness, Action, Characteristics

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

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  Bars, Pleasure, Jury

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

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• The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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  Happy Life, Effort, Amusement

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

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• The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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  Anger, Men, Judging

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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  Jealousy, Men, Envy

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• Beauty is a gift of God.

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  Beauty, Gift From God

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• Worms are the intestines of the earth.

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  Earth, Worms, Intestines

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• A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

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  Enemy, Common, Danger

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2071, Princeton University Press

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• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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

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• The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

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  Night, Light, Shadow

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