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Category: Aristotle

3 December 2020 Aristotle

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

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

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

3 December 2020 Aristotle

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

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

3 December 2020 Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

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

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

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

3 December 2020 Aristotle

He who hath many friends hath none.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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