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Aristotle Quotes - Page 12

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There is honor in being a dog.

There is honor in being a dog.

Dog, Honor

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Workout, Live Life, Philosophical

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Art, Philosophy, Men

Aristotle, Anaximenes (of Lampsacus.) (1936). “Problems ...”

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

Greatness, Men, Soul

Aristotle (2017). “Eleven Common Characteristics of Great Souls”, p.4, Philaletheians UK

Philosophy can make people sick.

Philosophy, People, Sick

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.48, Aeterna Press

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Gratitude, Grows

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”

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Courage, Men, Brave

Aristotle, John Burnet (1967). “Aristotle on Education: Extracts from the Ethics and Politics”, p.63, CUP Archive

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Ambition, Men, Desire

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

Men, Next Day, Forever

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Art, Art Is, Concerned

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

Natural, Habitual

Rhetorica,1370a (translated by J H Freese).

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Men, Desire, Sisyphus

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Dog, Needs, Beast

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Order, Law, Rule Of Law

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

One has no friend who has many friends.

No Friends, Many Friends

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Leadership, Education, Teacher

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

The greatest victory is over self.

Greatest Victory, Self, Victory

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Cat, Males, Female

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Happiness, Love You, Self Love

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Pain, Perception, Desire

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Truth, Knowing, Causes

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

Injustice, Results

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love, Friendship, Family

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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