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Aristotle Quotes - Page 22

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Those who act receive the prizes.

Those who act receive the prizes.

Prize

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Time, Philosophical, Youth

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

A friend is a second self.

Life, Friendship, Self

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Kindness, Action, Characteristics

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

Night, Light, Shadow

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Gymnastics, People, Principles

Worms are the intestines of the earth.

Earth, Worms, Intestines

I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

Knows

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

Blood, Goats, Diamond

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 an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Exercise, Association, Employment

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Earthquakes, Warning, World

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Taste, Beast, Mass

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1731, Princeton University Press

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Nature, Science, Physicians

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”

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Intelligent, Dignity, Talent

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Faith, Education, Art

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”

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Marriage, Husband, Men

Aristotle (1963). “Ethics”, Dutton Adult

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Character, Plot, Action

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Fear, Tragedy, Catharsis

Poetics ch. 6, 1449b

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Peace, Giving Up, War

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Should Have, Easy, Should

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

Evil draws men together.

Men, Evil, Together

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Lying, Mean, Men

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

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life, Long, Effort

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Storytelling, Results, Decadence

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

People, Democracy, Excess

'Politics' bk. 1, sect. 4, 1296a

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