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Aristotle Quotes - Page 10

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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Educational, Teaching, Justice

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Anger, Men, Rage

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Character, Should, Young

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.273, Aristotle

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Single, Men, Silence

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

War, Tyrants, People

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Community, Together, Seems

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Men, Law, Cities

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Philosophical, Cities, City Life

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Men, Self, Cost

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1766, Princeton University Press

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

Moving, Moved

It is no easy task to be good.

Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

Truth, Would Be

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Character, Self, Support

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

God, Names

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Motivation, Character, Patriotic

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Spiritual, Kindness, Men

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Lying, Government, Political

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Class, States, Middle

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3167, Modern Library

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Believe, People, Trying

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Friends, Good Friend, Fortune

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

Trying, Doing Nothing, Way

The actuality of thought is life.

Life, Actuality

Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.305, Aristotle

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Peace, Philosophical, Logical Reasoning

James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Nature, Causes, Chance

Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Success, Education, Simplicity

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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