Aristotle Quotes - Page 14

• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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  Art, Lying, Taught

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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• Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

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  Believe, People, Trying

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• No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

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  Class, States, Middle

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3167, Modern Library

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• A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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  Lying, Government, Political

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• Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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  Passion, Opposites, Soul

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• The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

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  War, Men, Bad Man

  Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.99

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• There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

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  Blessed, Excellence, Crafts

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• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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  Peace, Philosophical, Logical Reasoning

  James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

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• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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  Philosophical, Cities, City Life

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

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• God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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  God, Names

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• It is no easy task to be good.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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  Animal, Political, Doe

  c.330 BC Politics, bk.1, ch.2,1253b (translated by T A Sinclair).

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• Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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  Ambition, Men, Desire

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• The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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  Soul, Suffering, Body

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• 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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• It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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  Workout, Live Life, Philosophical

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• Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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• There is honor in being a dog.

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  Dog, Honor

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• Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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  Sweet, Wine, Science

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.582, Princeton University Press

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• A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

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  Philosophical, Men, Political

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• Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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  Men, Next Day, Forever

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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  Leadership, Education, Teacher

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• And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

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  Greatness, Men, Soul

  Aristotle (2017). “Eleven Common Characteristics of Great Souls”, p.4, Philaletheians UK

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

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  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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