Aristotle Quotes About Giving

• Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

  Aristotle

  Giving, Democracy, Republic

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Giving Up, War

• To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Money

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

• The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  Aristotle

  Maturity, Giving, Excellence

• Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

  Aristotle

  Love, Heart, Giving

• Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

  Aristotle

  Health, Giving, Rising

  Economics I

• Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Simple, Giving

• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Hate, Anger

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

• Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, Thinking

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.333, Collector's Library

• Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

  Aristotle

  Art, Artist, Giving

• Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

  Aristotle

  True Friend, Taken, Character

  Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

• Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Character, Giving

  "On the Art of Poetry".

• The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

  Aristotle

  Giving Up, Government, Important

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

• Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

  Aristotle

  Education, Men, Giving

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

• It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

  Aristotle

  Plato, Teaching, Giving

• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

• We are what we repeatedly do.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Powerful

• Most people would rather give than get affection.

  Aristotle

  People, Giving, Affection

• Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

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

• To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

  Aristotle

  Party, Giving, Decision

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

• So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

  Aristotle

  Giving, Soul, Body

• The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Black And White, Color

  Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

• In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

  Aristotle

  Art, Color, Giving

  Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron), Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Allen Moxon (1934). “Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica”

• The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Errors, Evil

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

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