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Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
- Aristotle
#Hand
#Lines
#Through
#Two
#Whole
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
#Change
#Impossible
#Mind
#Soul
#Time
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
#Art
#Lies
#Other
#Taught
#Who
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.
- Aristotle
#Action
#Eyes
#Place
#Possible
#Way
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
#Best
#Men
#Rebel
#Right
#Virtue
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
- Aristotle
#Angry
#Fear
#Long
#Respect
#Time
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
- Aristotle
#Animals
#Cannot
#Cry
#Others
#Voice
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
#Angry
#Man
#Moment
#Praise
#Time
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
#Evil
#Fear
#Men
#Own
#Punishment
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
- Aristotle
#Gold
#Impress
#Matter
#Power
#Way
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
- Aristotle
#Choice
#Excellence
#Man
#Way
#Wisdom
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
- Aristotle
#Anything
#Cannot
#Someone
#Soul
#Time
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
- Aristotle
#Good
#Man
#Men
#True
#Truth
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
- Aristotle
#Beginning
#Desire
#More
#Noble
#Train
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- Aristotle
#Appearance
#Ideas
#Same
#Twice
#World
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
- Aristotle
#Mean
#Pleasures
#Regard
#Temperance
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
- Aristotle
#Character
#Moral
#Performance
#Virtue
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
- Aristotle
#Arrangement
#Constitution
#State
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
#Ground
#Habit
#Nature
#Product
#Virtues
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
- Aristotle
#Been
#Demonstration
#Persuasion
#Thing
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
- Aristotle
#Animal
#Capable
#Man
#Memory
#Others
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Aristotle
#Dealing
#Justly
#Up
#Virtue
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
- Aristotle
#Artist
#Language
#Rare
#Three
#Words
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
- Aristotle
#Friendly
#Hostile
#Our
#Pleased
#Same
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
#Art
#Lies
#Other
#Taught
#Telling
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
- Aristotle
#About
#Difficult
#Knowledge
#Soul
#World
Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle
#Law
#Mind
#Reason
#Without
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
- Aristotle
#Best
#Eyes
#Others
#Position
#Vision
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
- Aristotle
#Bring
#Down
#Means
#Present
#Your
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
- Aristotle
#Elephant
#Ground
#Man
#Owl
#Wild
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Aristotle
#Acquire
#Acting
#Men
#Quality
#Way
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
- Aristotle
#Because
#Credible
#Persuasive
#Statement
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
- Aristotle
#Act
#Find
#Last
#Life
#Rest
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Aristotle
#Above
#Friends
#Honor
#Truth
#Us
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Aristotle
#Choose
#Existence
#Things
#World
#Would
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
- Aristotle
#Intoxication
#Resembling
#State
#Young
Most people would rather give than get affection.
- Aristotle
#Affection
#Get
#People
#Rather
#Would
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle
#Government
#Happiness
#Life
#Make
#Means
#Men
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- Aristotle
#Beloved
#Liberalism
#Most
#Virtues
No one loves the man whom he fears.
- Aristotle
#Fears
#He
#Loves
#Man
#Whom
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
- Aristotle
#Evil
#Eye
#Little
#Notice
#Strikes
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
- Aristotle
#Action
#Beginning
#End
#Middle
#Tragedy
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle
#Maxims
#Men
#Utter
#Young Men
#Young
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
- Aristotle
#Create
#Image
#Life
#Men
#Own
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Aristotle
#History
#More
#Nature
#Poetry
#Something
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
- Aristotle
#Equal
#Mind
#Order
#State
#Superior
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Aristotle
#Fear
#Men
#More
#Reverence
#Than
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
#Better
#Business
#Create
#Men
#Special
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
- Aristotle
#End
#Good
#Man
#Politics
#Science
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- Aristotle
#First
#Honor
#Love
#Truth
#Us
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Aristotle
#Confidence
#Courage
#Fear
#Mean
#Regard
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
- Aristotle
#Language
#Persuasion
#Speech
#Three
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle
#Friends
#Misfortune
#Really
#Those
#Who
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
- Aristotle
#Dog
#Elephant
#Fierce
#Gentle
#Shame
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- Aristotle
#Great
#Life
#Man
#Wise Man
#Wise
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
#Action
#Aim
#Art
#Choice
#Good
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- Aristotle
#City
#Confounded
#Great City
#Great
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
- Aristotle
#Enough
#He
#Nature
#Reason
#Who
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Aristotle
#Essentially
#Friendship
#Partnership
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
- Aristotle
#Art
#Function
#May
#Persuasion
#Rhetoric
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- Aristotle
#Initial
#Later
#Least
#Truth Is
#Truth
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.
- Aristotle
#Comfort
#Life
#Poverty
#True
#Weakness
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
#Fond
#Gods
#Joke
#Too
Bad men are full of repentance.
- Aristotle
#Bad Men
#Bad
#Full
#Men
#Repentance
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
- Aristotle
#Almost
#Character
#Means
#Persuasion
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
#Excellence
#Friendship
#Good
#Men
#Wish
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle
#Greatest
#Other
#Useful
#Virtues
#Which
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- Aristotle
#First
#Good
#He
#Must
#Ruler
Nature does nothing in vain.
- Aristotle
#Does
#Nature
#Nothing
#Vain
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle
#Beautiful
#Great
#Greatness
#Suffering
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
#Exempt
#Madness
#Mixture
#Soul
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
#Death
#Escape
#Suicide
#Trouble
#True
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
- Aristotle
#Argument
#Duty
#Follow
#Long
#Rhetoric
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
- Aristotle
#Day
#Eyes
#Nature
#Reason
#Soul
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Aristotle
#Always
#Been
#Down
#Laws
#Ought
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
- Aristotle
#Both
#Mistrust
#People
#Them
#Tyrant
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle
#Choose
#Friends
#He
#Live
#Without
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
- Aristotle
#Ask
#Body
#More
#Must
#Soul
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
- Aristotle
#Blessed
#Day
#Happy
#Man
#Time
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Aristotle
#Community
#Control
#Perfect
#Political
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle
#Genius
#Madness
#Never
#Without
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- Aristotle
#Democracy
#Poor
#Power
#Rich
#Will
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
- Aristotle
#Dear
#Dearer
#Me
#Still
#Truth
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- Aristotle
#Exclusive
#Knowledge
#Power
#Teacher
#Teaching
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Aristotle
#Glory
#Happiness
#Life
#Politics
#Power
Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
#Animal
#Man
#Nature
#Political
#Politics
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- Aristotle
#Better
#May
#Nature
#Sure
#Way
All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle
#Desire
#Knowledge
#Men
#Nature
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle
#Educated
#Insolence
#Intelligence
#Wit
The secret to humor is surprise.
- Aristotle
#Humor
#Secret
#Surprise
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
- Aristotle
#Democracy
#Equality
#Free
#Men
#Respect
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
- Aristotle
#Best
#Democracy
#Equality
#Government
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
#Age
#Old Age
#Old
#Ornament
#Youth
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
- Aristotle
#Character
#Good
#Impossible
#Men
#True
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle
#More
#Parts
#Sum
#Than
#Whole
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Aristotle
#Anticipation
#Arising
#Evil
#Fear
#Pain
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- Aristotle
#Best
#Friend
#Friendship
#Man
#Me
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
- Aristotle
#Banquet
#Best
#Life
#Rise
#Thirsty
Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle
#All Things
#Change
#Sweet
#Things
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.
- Aristotle
#Against
#Appearance
#Devotion
#Gods
#He
#Religion
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