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  • Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Lying Quotes , Two Quotes
  • We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Education Quotes , Hate Quotes
  • Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Kings Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Class Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Vices Quotes