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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by…
- Most people would rather give than get affection.
- 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…
- The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
- In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.
- 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…
- Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
- The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences…
- 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…
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the…
- Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
- Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
- To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
- Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite…
- The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of…
- The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
- It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
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