Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Injustice armed is hardest to deal with; and though man is born with weapons which he can use in the service of practical wisdom and virtue, it is all too easy for him to use them for the opposite purposes."

• From Aristotle's Politics (Bekker page 1253a), translated by T. A. Sinclair and revised by T. J. Saunders (Penguin Classics, 1962, 1981, 1992).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"The real difference between man and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state."

• From Aristotle's Politics (Bekker page 1253a), translated by T. A. Sinclair and revised by T. J. Saunders (Penguin Classics, 1962, 1981, 1992).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"As pleasure does not occur without activity, so every activity is perfected by its pleasure."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book X, section 4, Bekker page 1175a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"To dislodge by argument habits long embedded in the character is a difficult if not impossible task."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book X, section 9, Bekker page 1179b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Life is a desirable thing, especially for the good, because for them existence is good and pleasant (since they feel pleasure in the consciousness of what is in itself good)."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book XI, section 9, Bekker page 1170b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"For where there is nothing in common between ruler and ruled there is no friendship either, just as there is no justice."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 11, Bekker page 1161a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"The wish for friendship develops rapidly, but friendship does not."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Utility is an impermanent thing: it changes according to circumstances."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"One can forgive a man for not standing by his opinions in the face of powerful desires, but one cannot forgive wickedness or any other culpable attitude."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VII, section 2, Bekker page 1146a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384- 322 BCE)

"Nobody would choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 1, Bekker page 1155a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"It is proportional requital that holds the state together; because people expect either to return evil for evil - and if they cannot, feel that they have lost their liberty - or good for good, and if this is impossible no exchange can take place; and it is exchange that holds them together."

•  From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book V, section v, Bekker page 1133a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"The accepted view of the magnanimous man is that his gait is measure, his voice deep, and his speech unhurried. For since he takes few things seriously, he is not excitable, and since he regards nothing as great, he is not highly strung"

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book IV, section iii, Bekker page 1125a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004). 

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Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"Justice is only found among those whose mutual relations are controlled by law, and law is only found among those who are liable to injustice; for legal justice consists in distinguishing between what is just and what is unjust."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book V, section vi, Bekker page 1134a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Justice is a sort of mean state, only not in the same way as the other virtues are, but because it aims at a mean, whereas injustice aims at the extremes."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book V, section v, Bekker page 1133b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Wisdom produces happiness, not as medical science produces health, but as health does. For wisdom is a part of virtue as a whole, and makes a person happy by his possession and exercise of it."

•  From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VI, section xii, Bekker page 1144a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Falsehood is in itself bad and reprehensible, while truth is a fine and praiseworthy thing."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book IV, section vii, bekker page 1127a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Without exchange there would be no association, without equality there would be no exhange, without commensurability there would be no equality."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book V, section V, bekker page 1133b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"To kill oneself to escape from poverty or love or anything else that is distressing is not courageous but rather the act of a coward, because it shows weakness of character to run away from hardships, and the suicide endures death not because it is a fine thing to do but in order to escape from suffering."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book III, section vii) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Most people seem to owe their deception to pleasure, which appears to them to be a good although it is not; consequently they choose what is pleasant as a good, and avoid pain as an evil."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book III, section iv) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly, neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book I, section vii) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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