Aristotle Quotes - Page 31

• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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  Suicide, Running, Suicidal

  Nicomachean Ethics 3

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• Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

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  Mistake, Justice, Judging

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• Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

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  Imagination, Perception

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• Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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  Mean, Desire, Permit

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• As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

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  Children, Husband, Loss

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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  Lying, People, Produce

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  Change in all things is sweet.

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  Change, Sweet, Philosophical

  Plato, Aristotle (2012). “Gorgias and Rhetoric”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

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• In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

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  Race, Firsts, Runners

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

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• He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

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  Science, Views, Growth

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.14, Aristotle

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• If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

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  Should, Existence, If Then

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.166

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• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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  Fear, Men, Evil

  Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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  Philosophical, Law, Ought

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

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• It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

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  Life, Archer, Purpose

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• The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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  Science, Years, Mind

  Rhetoric II.xiv

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• Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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  Events, Statistics, Should

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

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  Atheism, May, Assuming

  "Posterior Analytics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, Part 25,

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• Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

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  Mean, Men, Gains

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• If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

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  Men, Perfect, Good Man

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

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  Romantic, Heart, Justice

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

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• Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

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  Perfect, Virtue, Habit

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

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  Numbers, Soul, May

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.123, Aristotle

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