Aristotle Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Citizens Quotes

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

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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.

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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, 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.

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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.

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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