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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of…
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is…
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed…
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to…
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of…
- If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
- Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their…
- It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is…
- 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…
- There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.…
- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are…
- Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it…
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
- The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will…
- Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only…
- For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
- Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
- If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle