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Aristotle
The young are...
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are...
The law is...
The law is reason free from passion.
Source: Politics.
-- Aristotle, ( ...
The beginning of...
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more ....
For as the...
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any...
Obstinate people can...
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Beauty depends on...
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a...
It is the...
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Every action must...
Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or...
Law means good...
Law means good order.
Source: Politics.
-- Aristotle, ( 384BC-322BC), Greek...
The generality of...
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather...
He who is...
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast...
Mothers are fonder...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their...
A good style...
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
No one will...
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
All virtue is...
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Source: Nicomachean Ethics.
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Poverty is the...
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Source: Politics.
-- Aristotle, (...
Bad men are...
Bad men are full of repentance.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...
A good style...
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must . . . be appropriate.
Source:...
Suffering becomes beautiful...
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but...
Men regard it...
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot, feel they have lost their...