More Aristotle Quotes And Musings

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“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– 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 .”
– Aristotle

“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.”
– Aristotle

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire”
– Aristotle

“All men by nature desire knowledge”
– Aristotle

“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 every body‘s power and is not easy”
– Aristotle

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
– Aristotle

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit”
– Aristotle

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others .”
– Aristotle

“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal .”
– Aristotle

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
– Aristotle

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
– Aristotle

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled .”
– Aristotle

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully .”
– Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
– Aristotle

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
– Aristotle

“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
– Aristotle

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds”
– Aristotle

“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”
– Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
– Aristotle

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work”
– Aristotle

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
– Aristotle

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead .”
– Aristotle

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