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Some Quotes by Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike…
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for…
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some…
- Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from…
- But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people…
- Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
- There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
- Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
- All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit,…
- 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…
- Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
- The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that…
- In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the…
- We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
- Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals…
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