Aristotle Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

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  Inspirational, Education, Money

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

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• It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

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  May, Philosopher, Prosperous

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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  Funny, Humor, Thieves

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• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Errors

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• For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

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  Inspirational, Sports, Choices

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• for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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  Philosophical, Order, Inquiry

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

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  Funny Relationship, Men, Age

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• It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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  Happiness, Exercise, Opposites

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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  Money, People, Greek

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

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  Graduation, Education, Teaching

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

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• Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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  Metaphor, Halfway, Commonplace

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• The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

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  Life Changing, True Nature, Highest

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• Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

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  Education, Men, Good Man

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• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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  Funny, Depression, Creativity

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• A man is the origin of his action.

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  Men, Action

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• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

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  Taken, May, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.12, Aeterna Press

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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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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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  Revenge, Attachment, Bitterness

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• Our actions determine our dispositions.

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  Our Actions, Action, Disposition

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• It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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  Daily Tasks, Tyrants, People

  "Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1313b.16),

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• It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

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  Education, Son, Parent

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.143, Aeterna Press

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• That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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  Real, Thinking, Soul

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• A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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  Democracy, Oligarchy, Weak

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