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Aristotle Quotes - Page 25

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

Inspirational, Education, Money

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

Tools, Would Be, Needs

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Beautiful, Black And White, Color

Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

A man is the origin of his action.

Men, Action

The secret to humor is surprise.

Philosophical, Humor, Secret Love

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Education, Men, Good Man

Education is the best provision for old age.

Graduation, Education, Teaching

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Inspirational, Friendship, Errors

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Eye, Writing, Genius

Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.46, Xist Publishing

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Caring, Numbers, Care

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Funny, Depression, Creativity

"The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Art, Color, Giving

Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron), Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Allen Moxon (1934). “Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica”

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Democracy, Oligarchy, Weak

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Government, People, What If

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Men, Soul, Excellence

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Love, Friendship, Truth

Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.201, Hackett Publishing

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Daily Tasks, Tyrants, People

"Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1313b.16),

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

Character, Play, Together

Aristotle (2016). “Poetics”, p.22, Aristotle

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Revenge, Attachment, Bitterness

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Father, Men, Careers

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Men, Feelings, Firsts

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”

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Party, Mean, Thinking

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.143, Aeterna Press

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

Life, Moving, Thinking

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Loyalty, Government, Justice

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

Baby, Speech, Easy

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