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Best State Quotes by Aristotle
- It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
- 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…
- And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the…
- Happiness is a state of activity.
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is…
- So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake…
- A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is…
- 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…
- The basis of a democratic state is liberty
- The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila