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Mean Quotes by Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
- 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…
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
- We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
- When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
- This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
- 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…
- 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.
- For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity…
- Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
- Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
- Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
- Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
- Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of…
- Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses…
- Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited),…
- Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from…
- Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
- Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
- By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
- 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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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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