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Aristotle Quotes - Page 4

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

Cost, Trouble, Coping

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Veterans Day, Military, American Veterans

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Numbers, Government, Class

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.112, Aeterna Press

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

Probability, Happens, Improbable

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Know How, Ought, Knows

Aristotle (1959). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

Men, Good Man, Wicked

Hope is a waking dream.

Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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 is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Equal Treatment, Treatment, Equal

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Peace, Nature, War

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Running, Men, Doing You

The best things are placed between extremes.

Extremes, Best Things

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”

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

Inspirational, Smart, Dumb

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

True Friend, True Life, Comfort

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”

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Men, Beast, He Man

Your happiness depends on you alone.

Depends

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Men, Past, Political

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Relationship, Fear, Anger

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 267-270, 1922.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise, Pain, Philosophical

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Facts, Reason

"Posterior Analytics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 13, 78a.22,

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Mother, Virtue, Consistently

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Happiness, Knows

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Rewards, Virtue

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