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Aristotle quotes (88) Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle Category: Potential Bashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age. Aristotle Category: Youth Humor is the only test of gravity and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle Category: Gravity The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance. Aristotle Category: Art Consider pleasures as they depart not as they come. Aristotle Category: Pleasure If women didnt exist all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle Onassis Category: Women No great genius is without an admixture of madness. Aristotle Category: Genius Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot feel they have lost their liberty. Aristotle Category: Revenge What it lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle Category: Love The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis Category: Success It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Category: Acceptance Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Aristotle Category: Reason He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. Aristotle Category: Anger After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Aristotle Onassis Category: Unsorted 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. Aristotle Category: Fear Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars. Aristotle Category: Poetry The law is reason free from passion. Aristotle Category: Law A state is not a mere society having a common place established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship. Aristotle Category: State Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. Aristotle Category: Acquaintance How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms? Aristotle Category: Disagree One swallow does not make a summer? Aristotle Category: Summer Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle Category: No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. Aristotle Category: Injustice We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. Aristotle Category: Soul We make war that we might live in peace. Aristotle Category: Peace Bodily exercise when compulsory does no harm to the body but knowledge acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Aristotle Category: Exercise Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle Category: Get Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. Aristotle Category: Praise Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents for these only gave life those the art of living well. Aristotle Category: Children A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth no property and vulgar employments. Aristotle Category: Democracy The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis Category: Business All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle Category: Mind Between friends there is no need of justice. Aristotle Category: Justice The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Aristotle Category: All Plato is dear to me but dearer still is truth. Aristotle Category: Truth Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. Aristotle Category: Beauty Every science and every inquiry and similarly every activity and pursuit is thought to aim at some good. Aristotle Category: Good I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle Category: Command We cannot learn without pain. Aristotle Category: Pain The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time is commended. Aristotle Category: Rights Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle Category: Depend You become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle Category: Action Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle Category: Dream Dignity does not consist in possessing honors but in deserving them. Aristotle Category: Dignity There are three classes of men--lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain. Aristotle Category: Man Bad men are full of repentance. Aristotle Category: Remember 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 Category: Leisure Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication because youth is sweet and they are growing. Aristotle Category: Unsorted All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle Category: Virtue Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Category: Education The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle Category: Humor Law is order and good law is good order. Aristotle Category: Order It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. Aristotle Category: Citizen Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle Category: Wit Philosophy is the science which considers truth. Aristotle Category: Philosophy The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. Aristotle Category: Two Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they my be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. Aristotle Category: Epithet Character is that which reveals moral purpose exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids Aristotle Category: Character All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle Category: Housework What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Aristotle Category: Statesman We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. Aristotle Category: Friendship It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it. Aristotle Category: Desire Well begun is half done. Aristotle Category: Begin If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. Aristotle Category: Happiness All that we do is done with an eye to something else. Aristotle Category: Do The quality of life is determined by its activities. Aristotle Category: Life And yet the true creator is necessity which is the mother of invention. Aristotle Category: Invention There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. Aristotle Category: Fool I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. Aristotle Category: Self ... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship. Aristotle Category: Politics The gods too are fond of a joke. Aristotle Category: God The family is the association established by nature for the supply of mans everyday wants. Aristotle Category: Family Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. Aristotle Category: Affection That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Aristotle Category: Common ... the man is free we say who exists for his own sake and not for another's. Aristotle Metaphysics Category: Unsorted Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle Category: Calamities It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle Category: Moderation It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle Category: Epigrams Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow. Aristotle Category: Progress No notice is taken of a little evil but when it increases it strikes the eye. Aristotle Category: Evil Learning is an ornament in prosperity a refuge in adversity and a provision in old age. Aristotle Category: Learn Those that know do. Those that understand teach. Aristotle Category: Teach Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle Category: Quick The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Aristotle Category: Courage Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead. Aristotle Category: Intelligent A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. Aristotle Category: Tragedy It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. Aristotle Category: Wonder Change in all things is sweet. Aristotle Category: Change |
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