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Disposition Quotes by Aristotle
- 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…
- 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…
- People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
- Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling…
- So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
- They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes…
- 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,…
More Disposition Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as… — John Adams
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
- Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good… — Giacomo Casanova
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish
- Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. — Oswald Chambers
- If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other… — Chanakya