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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal (Aristotle Quotes)
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive (Aristotle Quotes)
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses (Aristotle Quotes)
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute (Aristotle Quotes)
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative (Aristotle Quotes)
For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use (Aristotle Quotes)
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character (Aristotle Quotes)
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times (Aristotle Quotes)
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind (Aristotle Quotes)
... virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence (Aristotle Quotes)
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense (Aristotle Quotes)
It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done (Aristotle Quotes)
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents (Aristotle Quotes)
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate (Aristotle Quotes)
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances (Aristotle Quotes)
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same (Aristotle Quotes)
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles (Aristotle Quotes)
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? (Aristotle Quotes)
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state (Aristotle Quotes)
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war (Aristotle Quotes)
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young (Aristotle Quotes)
It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center (Aristotle Quotes)
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? (Aristotle Quotes)
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons (Aristotle Quotes)
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning (Aristotle Quotes)
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so (Aristotle Quotes)
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement (Aristotle Quotes)
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed (Aristotle Quotes)
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil (Aristotle Quotes)
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions (Aristotle Quotes)