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“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
― Nicomachean Ethics“They who love in excess also hate in excess.”
― Politics“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”
―“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”
―“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
―“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.”
― The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle“Choice not chance determines your destiny
―“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. ”
―“He who hath many friends hath none.”
―“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”
―“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
―“The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook”
―“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“Those who cannot bravely face danger are
the slaves of their attackers.”
―“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.”
― Politics“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”
―“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
―“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.”
― Metaphysics“It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”
―“Nature abhors a vacuum.”
―“Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself”
― The Nicomachean Ethics“Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
― Metaphysics“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.”
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Monday, June 27, 2022
Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy. ― Aristotle
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