Aristotle Quotes
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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality of anatural organized body.
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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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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.
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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
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Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.
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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.
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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises,principles.
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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
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Anybody can get hit over the head.
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.