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All Quotes by author - Aristotle

" A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. "

" A friend to all is a friend to none. "

" A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. "

" All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "

" All men by nature desire knowledge. "

" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "

" All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. "

" Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. "

" A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. "

" A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. "

" At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. "

" A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. "

" A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. "

" Bad men are full of repentance. "

" Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. "

" Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. "

" Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. "

" But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. "

" Change in all things is sweet. "

" Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. "

" Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. "

" Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. "

" Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. "

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

" Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. "

" Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. "

" Education is the best provision for old age. "

" Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. "

" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "

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