Aristotle Quotes About Duty

• The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

• The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Moving, Responsibility

• That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Numbers, Selfishness

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

• The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

  Aristotle

  Art, Long, Matter

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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