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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition (Aristotle Quotes)
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life (Aristotle Quotes)
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves (Aristotle Quotes)
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular (Aristotle Quotes)
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness (Aristotle Quotes)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind (Aristotle Quotes)
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness (Aristotle Quotes)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances (Aristotle Quotes)
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit (Aristotle Quotes)
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival (Aristotle Quotes)
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well (Aristotle Quotes)
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so (Aristotle Quotes)
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill (Aristotle Quotes)
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time (Aristotle Quotes)
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake (Aristotle Quotes)
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do (Aristotle Quotes)
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty (Aristotle Quotes)
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall (Aristotle Quotes)
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 (Aristotle Quotes)
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 (Aristotle Quotes)
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled (Aristotle Quotes)
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations (Aristotle Quotes)
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case (Aristotle Quotes)
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater (Aristotle Quotes)
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state (Aristotle Quotes)
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life (Aristotle Quotes)
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace (Aristotle Quotes)
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons (Aristotle Quotes)
Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act (Aristotle Quotes)
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice (Aristotle Quotes)