Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes, Soul Quotes

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

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A man is the origin of his action.

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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.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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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.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

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The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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