Quotes By Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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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.
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle