Aristotle Quotes, Lying Quotes

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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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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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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What soon grows old? Gratitude.

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Law is mind without reason.

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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

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The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

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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.

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Beauty is the gift of God

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To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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Happiness is self-connectedness.

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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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