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Letter "A" » Aristotle Quotes
«For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.»
«The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Community
| Keywords:
classes, middle class, outnumber, outnumbered, outnumbers, The Middle Class
«The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Best friend
| Keywords:
best friend, wishing
«Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
alliance, attends, civil law, Civil society, commercial, composed, composes, deserving, endeavors, evident, injuries, intercourse, mutually, nominally, that name, The Animal, whence, wholesome
«It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
banquet, banqueting, banquets, drunken, thirstier, thirsty
«We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace»
«People generally despise where they flatter»
«Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure neces»
«A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
agreeable, good shape, hook, nose, snub, snubbed, snubs, straightness, varies
«Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources»
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