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Common Quotes by 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…
- To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
- At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was…
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. .…
- For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is…
- It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim…
- A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
- That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
- What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess…
- For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except…
- It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the…
- One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the…
- That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all…
- To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
- Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.…
- Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
More Common Quotes
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life. — Frederick Lenz
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can… — Barack Obama
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo