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Aristotle Quotes - Page 23

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We are what we continually do.

We are what we continually do.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Ends, Middle, Whole

Poetics ch. 7, 1450b

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

Children, Growth, Mind

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

The law is reason, free from passion.

Philosophical, Passion, Law

"Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Wine, Men, Young

Aristotle (1886). “The Rhetoric of Aristotle”

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

Two, Way, Revolution

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4685, Catholic Way Publishing

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

People, Together, Salt

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Men, Good Man, Moral

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Art, Nature, Environment

There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

Sweet, Science, Sea

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.583, Princeton University Press

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

Justice, Stronger, Asking

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3104, Delphi Classics

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Brother, Strife

"Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 23: "Brothers Hotchner", www.imdb.com. May 22, 2013.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Philosophical, History, Poetry

"Poetics". Book by Aristotle, 1451b, 6, 335 BCE.

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

Pain, Men, Law

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

Soul, Principles, Different

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.28, Aeterna Press

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

Unique, Acorns, Fulfilled

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Men, Evil, Unjust

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

Two, Government, Citizens

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Happiness, Happy, Mean

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

Philosophy, Names, Medicine

Aristotle (1815). “Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry”, p.66

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Ignorance, Men, Errors

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.63

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

Gratitude, Pain, Honor

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Jealousy, Men, Envy

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

Determination, Animal, Men

Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.201, Collector's Library

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