Aristotle Quotes, Cost Quotes, Trouble Quotes

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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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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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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It is likely that unlikely things should happen

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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

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All men desire by nature to know.

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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