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01-10 Greek Philosophers Quotes Part 1 of 2 in English

The Greek philosophers were among the most influential people in history because they invented both philosophy and science. By asking questions about themselves and the world around them, these philosophers helped create modern civilization.

Interestingly enough, the Greek philosophers thought of themselves as scientists rather than thinkers. They called themselves seekers and lovers of wisdom and often studied a wide variety of subjects, including history, physics, law, sociology, politics, mathematics, and biology. The famous philosophers were also teachers, educating wealthy children and operating schools as well as thinkers.

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Author Birth - Death

GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PYTHAGOREANS - Alcmaeon of Croton

01 PRE-SOCRATIC - PLURALISTS - Anaxagoras of Clazomenes ( or Clazomenae) (or Klazomenai) 500 BC - 428 BC

PRE-SOCRATIC - IONIANS - Anaximander of Miletus

PRE-SOCRATIC - IONIANS - Anaximenes of Miletus

02 CYNICISM - Antisthenes 444 BC - 371 BC

GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PRE-SOCRATIC PYTHAGOREANS - Archytas of Tarantum

03 PERIPATETIC - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC

CYNICISM - Crates of Thebes

04 PRE-SOCRATIC - ATOMISTS - Democritus of Abdera 460 BC - 370 BC

05 CYNICISM - Diogenes of Sinope 412 BC - 323 BC

06 GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) ( Sicily ) - PLURALISTS - Empedocles of Acragas 490 BC - 430 BC

07 STOICISM - Epictetus 55 - 135

08 EPICUREANISM - Epicurus 341 BC - 271 BC

NEOPLATISM - Hierocles of Alexandria

PRE-SOCRATIC - Gorgias

09 INDIVIDUAL - IONIANS - Heraclitus 544 BC - 483 BC

10 NEOPLATONISM - Hypatia 350 - 415

11 Julius Caesar

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GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PYTHAGOREANS - Alcmaeon of Croton

Αλκμαίων

Fragments and Testimonies

Fr. 1: Concerning things that are not perceptible [and concerning mortal things] the gods have clarity, but insofar as it is possible for human beings to judge ...

Fr. 2: Human beings perish because they are not able to join their beginning to their end.

Fr. 4: Alcmaeon said that the equality (isonomia) of the powers (wet, dry, cold, hot, bitter, sweet, etc.) maintains health but that monarchy among them produces disease.

A5: All the senses are connected in some way with the brain. As a result, they are incapacitated when it is disturbed or changes its place, for it then stops the channels, through which the senses operate.

Translated by C. Huffman

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01 PRE-SOCRATIC - PLURALISTS - Anaxagoras of Clazomenes ( or Clazomenae) (or Klazomenai) Quotes

προσωκρατικοί φιλόσοφοι - Αναξαγόρας απο τις Κλαζομενές

Anaxagoras; part of a fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens.

Anaxagoras, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Unseen, Glimpse

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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Anaxagoras

Great, God, Rock

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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Men, Words, Taken

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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

Lost, Athenians

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The seed of everything is in everything else.

Seed

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Descent

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Fragments

1 (1) All things were altogether, unlimited in number and smallness; and the small was unlimited, and all things being together nothing was distinct because of its smallness. For air and aether covered everything, both being unlimited. For these are the greatest in all things, both in quantity and size.

2 (2) For air and aether are being separated out from the quantity of what surrounds, and what surrounds is unlimited in amount.

3 (3) And there is no least of what is small, but always a lesser (for it is not possible for what there is not to be); but there is always a larger than the large, and equal to the small in amount; for each thing in relation to itself is both large and small.

4 (4) (i) And since this is so, we must believe that there are many things of all kinds in all that is coming together and seeds of all things having all kinds of forms and colours and smells.

(ii) And humans were compacted and all the other animals that have psych. And for these humans there are inhabited cities and harvested fields as with us, and they have a sun and moon and the rest like us, and their earth has much produce of all kinds which they buy and use at home. So this is what i have said about the separating off, that there would not only be a separating off with us but elsewhere as well.

(iii) And before the separating off when all things were together, there was no colour distinct at all; for the mixture of all things was preventing it of the wet and the dry and the hot and the cold and the bright and the dark, and there was much earth within and a quantity if unlimited seeds, not at all like each other. For none of the other things seemed alike, one to another.

(iv) And since this is so we must believe that all things are in the whole.

5 (21a) The seen gives a glimpse of the unseen.

6 (21) Because of our weakness we are unable to judge the truth.

7 (17) The Greeks are not right to think that there is generation and destruction, for nothing is generated or destroyed, but there is a mixing and a separating of existing things. And so they would be right to call generation mixing and destruction separating.

8 (5) After these have been broken up in this way we must understand that all the things that there are are neither less nor more; for it is impossible for there to be more than all things, but all things are always equal.

9 (6) And since there are equal shares in quantity of the large and small, so too there would be everything in everything; for there are not separate, but everything has a portion of everything. Since there is no least it would not be possible for there to be separation nor for anything to exist on its own, but as at the beginning so now everything is all together. And in everything there is much of what is being separated off equal in quantity in the greater and the less.

10 (7) So that it is not possible to know the quantity of what is being separated off either in theory or practice.

11 (8) The contents of the cosmos are not separated from each other or cut of by an axe not the hot from the cold nor the cold from the hot.

12 (10) How could hair come from what is not hair and flesh from what is not flesh.

13 (11) In everything there is a portion of everything except of mind (nous), but some have mind as well.

14 (12) (i) Other things have a portion of everything, but mind is unlimited, self-determining, and mixed with no thing; it alone has independent existence. For if it were not independent, but mixed with some other thing, it would have a share in all things, if it had been mixed with any one; for there is a portion of everything in everything, as I said earlier. And what was mixed with it would prevent it from controlling any one thing in the way that it does by being alone and independent.

(ii) It is the most rarefied of all things and the purest, and has knowledge of each thing, and the greatest power. All that has life, whether larger or smaller, mind controls, and mind controlled the rotation of the whole, so as to make it rotate in the beginning. First it began the rotation from a small area, now it brings more into the rotation, and will bring even more.

(iii) Mind knew all that had been mixed and was being separated and becoming distinct. And all that was going to be, all that was but is no longer, and all that is now and will be, mind arranged in order, and this rotation too, in which now rotate the stars and sun and moon and air and aether, as they are being separated off. And it was the rotation which caused the separation. The dense is being separated off from the rare, and the hot from the cold, the bright from the dark and the dry from the wet.

(iv) But there are many portions of many things, and no thing is completely separated or distinct from another except mind. Mind is all the same, whether larger or smaller. Nothing else is like any one thing, but each individual object most obviously is and was what that object has most of.

15 (13) And when mind initiated movement there was a separating off from all that was being moved, and all that mind moved was made distinct; and the rotation of what was being moved and made distinct was causing much more to be made distinct.

16 (14) And mind is always, even now with everything else, in the periphery and in what has been separated and brought together and in what has been separated off completely.

17 (15) The thick and the wet and the cold and the dark were coming together, and there now is earth. The fine and the hot and the dry moved out towards the aether.

18 (16) From these as they were separating off earth was compacted; for water is separated off from the clouds, and from water earth, and from earth stones are compacted by the cold.

19 (18) The sun gives brightness to the moon.

20 (19) We call Iris the light in the clouds facing the sun.

21 (20) A bird's milk is the white of the egg.

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PRE-SOCRATIC - IONIANS - Milesian school - Anaximander of Miletus

προσωκρατικοί φιλόσοφοι - Αναξίμανδρος ο Μιλήσιος

Fragments and Testimonies

1(1) From the source from which they arise, to that they return of necessity when they are destroyed, 'for they suffer punishment and make reparation to one another for their injustice according to the assessment of time', as he says in somewhat poetical terms.

2 (A11 from Hippolytus) He said that the arche ('beginning and basis') of existing things is an apeiron ('limitless') nature of some kind, from which come the heavens and the kosmos ('world order') in them.

3(3) ... deathless and indestructible <the indefinite>

4(5) He compared the earth to a stone column section.

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PRE-SOCRATIC - IONIANS - Milesian school - Anaximenes of Miletus

προσωκρατικοί φιλόσοφοι - Αναξιμένης ο Μιλήσιος

Fragments and Testimonies

1 (A5 from Theophrastus) Anaximenes, Anaximander's colleague, said, as he did, that there was one underlying nature, but not, as he did, that it was limitless but limited, naming it as air; and by thinning and thickening it makes individual objects different.

2(2) As our soul, which is air, maintains us, so breath and air surround the whole world.

3(2a) The sun is broad and flat, like a leaf.

Translation M. R. Wright - note: numbers in parentheses refer to the standard Diels/Kranz order

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02 CYNICISM - Antisthenes Quotes

Αντισθένης

Portrait bust of Antisthenes, found at the Villa of Cassius at Tivoli, 1774 (Museo Pio-Clementino).

Antisthenes, part of a fresco in the National University of Athens.

Giulio Bonasone - Diogenes and Antisthenes

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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Learning, Learned, Necessary

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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Jealousy, Passion, Iron

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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Truth, Lost, Enemy

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Life, Learning, Piece

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Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Enemy, Mistakes, Attention

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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Enemy, Faults, Observe

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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Wedding, Often, Gifts

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I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Afraid, Wicked, Sadly

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CYNICISM - Antisthenes Quotes 8 quotes - SUPPLEMENT

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"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Imagination Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes

"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes

"I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes

"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes

"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes

"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."

Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Consumed Quotes

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GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PRE-SOCRATIC - PYTHAGOREANS - Archytas of Tarantum

προσωκρατικοί φιλόσοφοι - Πυθαγόρειοι φιλόσοφοι - Αρχύτας ο Ταραντίνος

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03 PERIPATETIC - Aristotle Quotes - page 01 of 07

ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΗΤΙΚΟΙ - Αριστοτέλης

Roman copy in marble of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippus, c. 330 BC. The alabaster mantle is modern.

"Aristotle" by Francesco Hayez (1791–1882)

Aristotle portrayed in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle as a scholar of the 15th century AD.

Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and experience, while holding a copy of his Nicomachean Ethics in his hand, whilst Plato gestures to the heavens, representing his belief in The Forms, while holding a copy of Timaeus

"Aristotle" by Jusepe de Ribera

"Aristotle with a bust of Homer" by Rembrandt.

An thirteenth-century Islamic portrayal of Aristotle (right).

Statue by Cipri Adolf Bermann (1915) at the University of Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau

"ARISTOTLE" near the ceiling of the Great Hall in the Library of Congress.

Aristotle writing

Aristotle with Alexander the Great

Aristotle's School, a painting from the 1880s by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg

Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato; part of a fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Motivational, Quality, Habit

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love, Bodies, Single

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education, Fruit, Bitter

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

Friendship, Best, Friend

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Education, Educated, Accepting

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Anger, Time, Power

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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.

Art, Excellence, Training

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

Friendship, Friend, None

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art, Aim, Inward

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage, Honor, Mind

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Hope is a waking dream.

Hope, Dream, Waking

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Excellence, Habit, Act

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Intelligence, Great, Genius

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Life, Energy, Mind

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

Best, Law, Animals

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Work, Perfection, Pleasure

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness, Ourselves, Depends

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Teen, Good, Youth

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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.

Jealousy, Good, Men

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

Life, Power, Awareness

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Equality, Inequality, Worst

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

Teacher, Power, Knowledge

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Power, Democracy, Poor

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Nature, Marvelous

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

True, Soul, Friend

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

God, Solitude, Either

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

Great, Greatness, Beautiful

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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.

Death, True, While

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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.

Society, God, Himself

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Life, Best, Grace

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship, Bodies, Dwelling

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Life, True, Friends

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship, Work, Friends

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education, Adversity, Prosperity

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity, Deserving, Honors

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Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Good, Men, True

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Work, Labor, Gain

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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Thankful, Grateful, Whose

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Wit is educated insolence.

Intelligence, Wit, Educated

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Desires, Enemy, Self

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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Madness, Genius

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Parts, Sum

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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.

Religion, Against, Less

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Change in all things is sweet.

Change, Sweet

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Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Others, Jealous, Friendly

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Poetry, History, Particular

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

Nature, Passion, Reason

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Moral, Result, Brave

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

Politics, Men, Democracy

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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.

Life, Art, Educate

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03 PERIPATETIC - Aristotle Quotes - page 03 of 07

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

Good, Ruled, Ruler

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The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Best, Others, Small

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Mean, Regard, Pleasures

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Living, Dead, Educated

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Mind, State, Order

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Political, Both, Control

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Knowledge, Nature, Men

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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.

Time, Cannot, Whether

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Life, Great, Wise

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Character, Means, Almost

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Teach, Understand

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Mom, Certain, Mothers

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Improbable, Preferred, Probable

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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.

Men, Fear, Rather

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We make war that we may live in peace.

Peace, War

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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.

Good, Art, Reason

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Action, Brave, Actions

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Beauty, Personal, Greater

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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.

Equality, Men, Respect

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Friends, Though, Choose

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The soul never thinks without a picture.

Picture, Soul, Thinks

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

Great, City, Confounded

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Decline, Degenerate, Republics

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Age, Youth, Ornament

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Both, Therefore, Arms

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Mind, Jobs, Paid

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Life, Happiness, Men

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Joke, Gods, Fond

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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.

Character, Certain, Moral

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

Truth, Later, Initial

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friendship

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Friendship, Good, Men

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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

Others, Use, Animals

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Fear, Others, Law

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise, Pain, Pleasure

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Politics, Life, Happiness

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear, Evil, Pain

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Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature, Vain

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Power, Lies

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Humor, Secret, Surprise

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Time, Happy, Short

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Life, Best, Nor

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

Life, Good, State

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

Art, Lies, Taught

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Wisdom, Moderation, Justice

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Soul, Madness, Excellent

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Well begun is half done.

Brainy, Begun, Half

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

Means, Bring, Present

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Virtues, Beloved, Liberalism

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Choose, Existence, Condition

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Men, Fear, Reverence

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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.

Equality, Best, Government

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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.

Best, Men, Virtue

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Life, Last, Act

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Fear, Courage, Mean

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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Language, Persuasion, Means

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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.

Power, Sense, Matter

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Nature, History, Poetry

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He who hath many friends hath none.

Friendship, Friends, None

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

Brainy, Courage, Others

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Hope, Youth, Easily

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Nature, Another, Sure

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Greatest, Useful, Virtues

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Evil, Taken, Eye

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Law, Passion, Reason

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

Truth, Dear, Plato

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Education is the best provision for old age.

Best, Education, Age

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

State, Resembling

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

Written, Laws, Ought

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Nature, Reason, Soul

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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.

Whether, Soul, Body

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Nature, Another, Reason

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Men, Utter, Maxims

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Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Friendly, Pleased, Judgments

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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.

Time, Against, Moment

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Love, Truth, Friends

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics, Nature, Political

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Bad men are full of repentance.

Men, Full, Repentance

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Good, Politics, Science

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No one loves the man whom he fears.

Whom, Loves, Fears

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

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Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Cannot, Others, Word

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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Time, Fear, Respect

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friends, Shows, Misfortune

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Tragedy, Action, Certain

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

Life, Men, Create

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

State

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Men, Acting, Quality

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Virtue, Dealing, Justly

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

Once, Times, Ideas

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Truth, Friends, Honor

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

Rather, Affection

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Art, Homer, Lies

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Nature, Against, Moral

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Time, Change, Mind

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Getting, Sort, Desire

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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.

Business, Men, Use

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Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Others, Though, Common

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Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Since, Sort, Consider

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Art, Means, Given

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A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Either, Directly, Appears

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Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Hand, Lines, Persons

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Cannot, Deal, Follow

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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Far, Possible, Eyes

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PERIPATETIC - Aristotle Quotes 254 quotes - SUPPLEMENT

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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Motivational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes

"They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Youth Quotes

"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes

"The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Tragedies Quotes

"To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Soul Quotes

"In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Revolutions And Revolutionaries Quotes

"No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Responsibility Quotes

"For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Rebellion Quotes

"Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Praise Quotes

"Poverty is the parent of revolution"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Poverty Quotes

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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Poverty And The Poor Quotes

"All proofs rest on premises"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is the science which considers truth"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes

"all he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Men Quotes

"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Memory Quotes

"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Melancholy Quotes Wit Quotes

"Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Madness Quotes

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Learning Quotes

"The law is reason free from passion"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Law Quotes

"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Justice Quotes

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"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Impossibility Quotes

"Either a beast or a god."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes

"Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: History Quotes

"Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes

"Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity"

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes

"Happiness is a sort of action."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes

"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us, neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Habit Quotes

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Habit Quotes

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"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."

Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Growth Quotes

"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."