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Aristotle Quotes about Giving

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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Giving, Democracy, Republic

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Love, Heart, Giving

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

Mean, Simple, Giving

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Art, Color, Giving

Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron), Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Allen Moxon (1934). “Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica”

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Writing, Character, Giving

"On the Art of Poetry".

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

Hands, Errors, Giving

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Art, Artist, Giving

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Health, Giving, Rising

Economics I

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

Plato, Teaching, Giving

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Education, Men, Giving

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

Most people would rather give than get affection.

People, Giving, Affection

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Truth, History, Giving

Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1932). “The poetics”

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

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Party, Giving, Decision

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Giving, Soul, Body

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