Aristotle Quotes, Essence Quotes, Substance Quotes

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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

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He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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