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Aristotle Quotes - Page 19

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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

Men, Return, Being Loved

Aristotle, Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf (2013). “Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Men, Way, Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

Men, Study

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Action, Virtue, Produce

Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

Education, Children, War

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3137, Delphi Classics

For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.

Self, Play, Bidding

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Mean, Interesting, Virtue

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4080, Catholic Way Publishing

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Pride, Ideas, Victory

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Pain, Opposites, Quality

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

Man is by nature a political animal.

Nature, Philosophical, Animal

Politics bk. 1, 1253a

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Men, Ought

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Inspirational, Hate, Character

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1852, Princeton University Press

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Men, Animal, Way

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 beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Half, Whole

Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

Good Life, Spring, Men

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2113, Princeton University Press

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

Believe, Healthy, Just Friends

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

Perception starts with the eye.

Eye, Perception

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

Philosophy, Men, Words Of Wisdom

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

Justice, Judging, Social Justice

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.274, Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Government, Law, Ifs

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

Beauty is the gift of God

Inspirational, Beauty, Gift From God

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”

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

Mean, Two, Mind

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

"Morality Is Relative But Not Subjective" by Adam Lee, bigthink.com.

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