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Aristotle Quotes - Page 46

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The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Government, Numbers, Democracy

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.98, Princeton University Press

Those who believe 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, Believe, Matter

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.184, Aristotle

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

True Friend, Taken, Character

Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Mean, Choices, Moral

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Prosperity, Seems

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

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

Men, Two, Soul

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Men, Hurtful, Good Things

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

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Noble, Sake, Faces

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.

Mean, Simple, Errors

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

Air, Design, Tragedy

Aristotle (0101). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

Arrows, Space, Flying

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.645, Delphi Classics

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Hunting, Animal, Hunters

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Philosophical, Constitution, States

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Philosophical, Insanity, Soul

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”

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

4th Of July, Liberty, States

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3476, Modern Library

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Character, People, Vices

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

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Leadership, Greek, Coaching

Poetics ch. 24, 1460a

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Ignorant

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Philosophical, Taken, Eye

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.166, Aeterna Press

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Gun, Citizens, Arms

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Citizens, States, Fortune

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.144, Aristotle

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

Cutting, Errors, Law

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2080, Princeton University Press

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

Art, Artist, Art Is

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

There is always something new coming out of Africa.

Something New, Coming Out

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Men, Views, Achieve

Aristotle,, Sir Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley (2009). “The Politics”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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