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Aristotle

Aristotle

Philosopher

(c. 384 BCE - c. 332 BCE)

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Aristotle

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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
Actions - Meaning
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For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
Medicine - Merit - Philosophy - Poetry
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Aiming - End - Meaning - Virtue
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Equality
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Accounting - Philosophy - Science - Truth
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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
End - Habit - Inspiration - Man - Practice
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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
Constitution - Democracy - Politics
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Man - Wisdom
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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Feelings - Man
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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
End - Making - Man - Politics - Purpose - Views
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
Charity - Education - Giving - Inspiration - Man - Money - Philanthropy - Purpose
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Impossible
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"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"
Creativity
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Honor - Mindset - Quality - Willing - World
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
Philanthropy
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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
Giving - Man - Work
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Friendship - Judging - People
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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.
Equality - Flying
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
Actions - Ambition - Control - Exercise - Oneself - Performance - Practice
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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
Ability - Advantage - Citizenry - Equality - Government - Judging - Law - Sharing - State - Views - Virtue - Willing
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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.
Appearance - Belief - Devotion - Illegal - Movement - Religion
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Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.
Children - Citizenry - Constitution - Education - Growing - State - Virtue - Whole
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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
Dispose - Soul - Virtue
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
Law - Permission - Suicide
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Feelings - Liberty - Loss - Man - Return - Revenge
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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.
Age - Certainty - Dictatorship - Facts - Government - Heroism - Judging - Kindness - Law - Monarchy - Royalty
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
Difficulty - Failing
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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
Adapting - Bad - Constitution - Good - Government - Injustice - Judging - Law - State - Unjust
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No science ever defends its first principles.
Principle
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We must become just be doing just acts.
Education - Literature - Philosophy
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
Aiming - Education - End - Influence - Knowledge - Life - Literature - Marking - Philosophy - Trial
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