Aristotle
Found 127 thoughts of Aristotle
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.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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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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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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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.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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