Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.”

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352. “A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;.”

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353. “A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.”

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354. “The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

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355. “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”

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356. “Selfishness doesn’t consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.”

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357. “All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.”

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358. “It’s the fastest who gets paid, and it’s the fastest who gets laid.”

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359. “Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.”

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360. “People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.”

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361. “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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362. “It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

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363. “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”

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364. “It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”

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365. “All that we do is done with an eye to something else.”

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366. “Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.”

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367. “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.”

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368. “Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.”

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369. “The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.”

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370. “Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.”

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371. “Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.”

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372. “The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.”

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373. “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

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374. “Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”

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375. “The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.”

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376. “We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses – in short, from fewer premises.”

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377. “It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”

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378. “Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.”

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379. “Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.”

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380. “All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”

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381. “The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants.”

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382. “Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.”

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383. “Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.”

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384. “Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”

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385. “To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.”

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386. “Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.”

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387. “The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.”

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388. “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.”

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389. “A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.”

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390. “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.”

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391. “The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.”

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392. “Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”

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393. “The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.”

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394. “What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.”

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395. “We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.”

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396. “And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”

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397. “To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.”

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398. “With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”

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399. “Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.”

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400. “Imagination is a sort of faint perception.”

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