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Aristotle Quotes - Page 44

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Greed has no boundaries

Greed has no boundaries

Greed, Boundaries, Modern

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Order, Unity, Principles

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Definitions, Natural, Prime

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

Law, Government, Matter

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

Animal, Generations, Facts

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1790, Delphi Classics

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

Block, Agriculture, Land

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Courage, Brave

"Nicomachean Ethics".

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Home, Two, Soul

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

Maturity, Giving, Excellence

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

Nature, Science, Action

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1738, Princeton University Press

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Wisdom, Good Life, Acquisition

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Nature, Equality, Desire

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Happiness, Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

Mean, Names, Evil

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

Untrustworthy, May, Torture

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Nature, Science, Imperfect

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1112, Princeton University Press

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Men, Class, Looks

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Pain, Errors, Evil

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Acting, Vices, Doe

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Time, Facts, Action

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1107a.15,

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Men, Soul, Lovers

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

Soul, Digestion, Produce

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.40, Aeterna Press

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Mean, Numbers, Government

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

Wisdom, Believe, Mean

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

Government, Democracy, Oligarchy

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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