More Aristotle Quotes And Musings

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“If the virtues are neither passions nor facilities, all that remains is that they should be states of character.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The virtue of man will be the state of character which makes a man good and which makes him live well.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“For men are good in but one way, but bad in many. Anon.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, being determined by rational principle as determined by the moderate man of practical wisdom.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“In all things the mean is praiseworthy, and the extremes neither praiseworthy nor right, but worthy of blame.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Man acts voluntarily, the impulses that move the parts of his body are in his power to do or not to do. To endure great indignities for no noble end or for a trifling one is the mark of an inferior person. As a rule, what is expected is painful, and what we are forced to do is base, whence praise and blame are bestowed on those who have been compelled or have not.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“It is absurd to make external circumstances responsible and not oneself, and to make oneself responsible for noble acts and pleasant objects responsible for base ones.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Everything done by reason of ignorance is involuntary. The man who has acted in ignorance has not acted voluntarily since he did not know what he was doing. Not every wicked man is ignorant of what he ought to do and what he ought to abstain from; by such errors men become unjust and bad.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“No one chooses wishful things, but only that things might be brought about by his efforts; choice relates to things that are in our power and involve a rational principle.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“We deliberate about things that are in our power to do or not. We deliberate not about ends, but about means. The object of choice is one of the things in our power which is desired after deliberation.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Each state of character has its own ideas of the noble and the pleasant, and perhaps the good man differs from others most by seeing the truth in each class of things. In most things the error seems to arise from pleasure, what appears good when it is not.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The end being what we wish for, the means what we deliberate about and we choose our actions voluntarily. The exercise of virtues is concerned with means and therefore both virtue and vice are in our power.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“We punish a man for his ignorance if he is thought to be responsible for his ignorance.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“If a man does unjust things without being ignorant he is unjust voluntarily.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Death is the most terrible of all things, for it is the end, and nothing is thought to be either good or bad for the dead.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The man who fears the right things for the right motives in the right way at the right time and feels confidence is brave.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The temperate man is so called because he is not pained at the absence of what is pleasant. The self-indulgent man craves pleasures and is led by his appetite to choose them at the cost of everything else.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Liberality seems to be the mean as regards wealth, for the liberal man is praised for the giving and taking of wealth and especially with giving.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Givers are called liberal; those who do not take are not praised for liberality but rather for justice; those who take are hardly praised at all. The liberal are most loved of virtuous men because they are useful.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Liberality lies not in the multitude of the gifts but in the character of the giver.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Those who inherited wealth are thought to be more liberal than those who made it, since men are fonder of their own productions. It is not easy for the liberal man to be rich for he cannot have more wealth if he does not take pains to have it.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Some exceed in taking by taking anything from any source, e.g. those who ply sordid trades, pimps and money lenders. What is common in them is sordid love of gain; they put up with a bad name for the sake of gain.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“It is hard to be proud and impossible without nobility and goodness of character.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The Spartans did not recount their services to the Athenians, but those they had received, when they asked for help to defend against a Thebian invasion in 369.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“He must be open in his hate and in his love, for to conceal one’s feelings is to care less for truth than for what people think and that is the coward’s part. He must speak and act openly because it is his to speak the truth.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“He must be unable to make his life revolve round another unless he be a friend; for this is slavish and all flatters are servile people lacking in self- respect. Nor is he a gossip, he will speak neither about himself or about another since he cares not to be praised nor others blamed.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“By reason of excess choleric people are quick-tempered and ready to be angry with everything on every occasion. Sulky people are hard to appease and retain their anger until revenge relieves them of it.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“We call bad-tempered those who are angry at the wrong things more often than is right, and longer, and will not be appeased until they are revenged.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Some men are thought to be obsequious; to give pleasure they praise everything and never oppose, but think it their duty ‘to give no pain to the people they meet,’ while those who, on the contrary oppose everything and care not a whit about giving pain are called churlish and contentions.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

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