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Ought Quotes by Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with…
- We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
- Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
- Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to…
- In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are…
- The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
- Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea…
- All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
- A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
- But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that…
- To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen