Aristotle Quotes - Page 9

• It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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  Peace, War, Winning

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• Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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  Way, Occam's Razor

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• Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

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  Dog, Needs, Beast

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• All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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  Action, Misery, Form

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• A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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  Men, Return, Being Loved

  Aristotle, Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf (2013). “Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

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• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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  Pain, Fear, Philosophical

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• Either a beast or a god.

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  God, Beast

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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  Engagement, Activity, Highest

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• The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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  Spring, Exercise, Men

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• All learning is derived from things previously known.

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  Learning, Known

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.155

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

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

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• The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

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  Views, Government, Citizens

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

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  Pleasure, Depraved, Insensible

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• Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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  People, Ignorant, Obstinate

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• Wit is well-bred insolence.

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  Insolence, Wit, Wells

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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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• We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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  Truth, Knowing, Causes

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• What we expect, that we find.

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  Law Of Attraction, Attraction

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• For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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  Drinking, Mean, Exercise

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• A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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  Wife, Quality, Female

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• That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

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  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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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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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

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  Educational, Fate, Empires

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