Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes

Character is revealed through action.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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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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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

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This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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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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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

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