Aristotle

Perception starts with the eye.

— Aristotle

It is no easy task to be good.

— Aristotle

All communication must lead to change

— Aristotle

“Nothing is what rocks dream about”

— Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

— Aristotle

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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Nature does nothing in vain.

— Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.

— Aristotle

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

— Aristotle

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

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

— Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

— Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

— Aristotle

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

— Aristotle

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

— Aristotle

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

— Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

— Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own…

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather,…

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those…

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of…

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the…

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“The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does…

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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…

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“The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For…

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the…

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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve…

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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

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Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and…

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How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit…

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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of…

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“bad men... aim at getting more than their share of advantages, while in labor and public service they fall short of their…

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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five…

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