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Firsts Quotes by Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- 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…
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- 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…
- The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are…
- A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
- Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
- The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles…
- You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I…
- It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
- We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he,…
- Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind
- It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual…
- Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
- As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then…
- He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
- First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods.…
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