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Aristotle Quotes - Page 48

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In justice is all virtues found in sum.

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

Justice, Virtue, Found

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.115, Wordsworth Editions

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Funny, Humor, Humility

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

Men, Differences, Law

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Fall, Passion, Vices

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.43, Aeterna Press

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Men, Office, Want

Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

Law, Degrees, Doe

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.88

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Pain, Mean, Bravery

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.84

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

Education, Art, Views

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2964, Delphi Classics

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Men, Good Man, Doe

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Law, Justice, Principles

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2035, Princeton University Press

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

Men, Hands, Mind

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 law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

Suicide, Suicidal, Law

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.567, Simon and Schuster

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Men, Thinking, Law

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

Children, Teaching, Responsibility

Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Class, Soul, Moral

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1926). “The Nicomachean ethics”

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Art, Exercise, Men

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2590, Delphi Classics

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Carpe Diem, Men, Lazy

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

Science, Earth, Length

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.573, Princeton University Press

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Laughter, Pain, Doe

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

Science, Causes, All Things

Aristotle (1933). “Oeconomica”

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

Nature, Faults, Results

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”

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Firsts, Comedy, Treated

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3438, Delphi Classics

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

Daughter, Patience, Fortitude

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

Character, May, Sovereign

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Mankind, Insatiable, Avarice

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

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