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Aristotle Quotes - Page 43

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Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

War, Exercise, Men

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Men, Tragedy, Action

Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Doe, Needs, Use

Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.82, Aristotle

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Wise, Men, Thinking

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Wisdom, Philosophical, Justice

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”

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Mean, Two, Choices

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Character, Anxiety, Political

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

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Men, Reverence

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

Needs, Slave

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Mind, Demand, Accepting

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Art, Choices, Inquiry

Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Justice, Judging, Office

"Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

Men, Tyrants, Doubt

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

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

Way, Adultery, Right Time

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Two, Soul, Movement

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1060, Catholic Way Publishing

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

Moving, Atheism, Would Be

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Easier, Ability, Good Sense

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.4

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

Common, Reason, Currency

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Men, Bravery, Clear

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

Government, Political, Noble

"Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1280b.30 - 1281a.3,

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Benefits, Beloved, Philanthropy

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”

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Science, Fire, Two

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.505, Princeton University Press

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

Opposites, Decision, Employment

Aristotle, John Henry Freese (1926). “Aristotle: the art of rhetoric”, Loeb Classical Library

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

Writing, Mean, Style

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Virtue, Masters, Prudence

Aristotle (1850). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an Analytical Introduction; and Questions for the Use of Students”, p.162

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