Aristotle Quotes, Music Quotes, Passion Quotes

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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Man by nature wants to know.

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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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All men desire by nature to know.

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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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A promise made must be a promise kept.

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