Aristotle Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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  Class, Government, Democracy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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  Soul, Mind, Body

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

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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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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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  Single, Men, Worst Enemy

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• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• The actuality of thought is life.

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  Life, Actuality

  Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.305, Aristotle

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• The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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  Philosophy, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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• There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

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  Insanity, Genius

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• If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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  Work, Men, Given

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3164, Delphi Classics

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• Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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  Responsibility, Self, Sufficiency

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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

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  Educational, Fate, Empires

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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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• Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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  Genius, Madness, Sanity

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• Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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  Duration, Intensity, Fine

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• It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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  Motivation, Character, Patriotic

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• A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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  Gentleman, Disturbed

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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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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

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• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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  Love, Friendship, Family

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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  Affection, Habit

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Economics”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

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  Parenting, People, Young

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• Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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  Freedom, Philosophical, Men

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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