May Quotes by Aristotle

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

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We make war that we may live in peace.

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with…

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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and…

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

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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…

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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but…

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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the…

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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

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. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in…

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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;…

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is…

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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…

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand…

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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…

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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to…

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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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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating,…

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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only…

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Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled…

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What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than…

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing…

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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…

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and…

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Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may…

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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole…

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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…

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may…

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only…

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle