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Aristotle Quotes

«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.»
«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.»
«Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.»
«To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence.»
«The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody»
«That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Soul | Keywords: real thing
«Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.»
«Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Politicians | Keywords: aiming
«Happiness is activity.»
«So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.»