Aristotle Quotes — Page 29

Aristotle

Philosopher

Melancholic

“Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?”

Men Art Philosophy

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Wise

“People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.”

People Wise Effort

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Motivated

“The complete man must work, study and wrestle.”

Men Study

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Motivated

“Well begun is half done.”

Inspirational Philosophical

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Philosophical

“And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.”

Men Soul Greatness

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Melancholic

“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.”

Children Would Be Race

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Curious

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

Inspirational Education

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Philosophical

“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.”

Spring Revolution

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Philosophical

“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”

Mean Art Intellectual

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Wise

“Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.”

Men Honesty Excellence

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Motivated

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

Inspirational Philosophical

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Wise

“Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.”

Feelings

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