Aristotle Quotes, Opposites Quotes, Decision Quotes

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

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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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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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

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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

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Those who act receive the prizes.

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Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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