Aristotle Quotes, Mean Quotes, Two Quotes

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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Authority is no source for Truth.

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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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We are what we frequently do.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

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