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Aristotle Quotes - Page 20

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

True Friend, Inspiration, Adversity

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Happiness, Blessing, Justice

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Character, Presidential, Carrie

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Anger, Age, Meanness

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Education, School, Youth

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Adequate, Ifs

Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Heart, Soul, Brain

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Men, Beast, Harm

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

Man by Nature desires to know.

Men, Desire, Knows

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Definitions, Next, Moral

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

Honor, Victory, Youth

Aristotle, Hippocrates George Apostle, Lloyd P. Gerson (1982). “Selected works”

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Expression, Excellence, Lows

Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.58, University of Michigan Press

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

Good Life, Men, Order

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Men, Soul, What Is Happiness

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Practice, Virtue, Enough

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

Justice, Excess, Driven

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Men, Tragedy, Comedy

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Character, Sea, Noble

No science ever defends its first principles.

Principles, Firsts

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Men, Benefits, Shame

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Thinking, Pleasure, Nicomachean Ethics

The hand is the tool of tools.

Hands, Tools, Materials

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Science, Physicians, Use

Politics VII.ii

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Children, Character, Teach

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