Greek philosopher (384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
That which is a common concern is very generally neglected. The energies of man are excited by that which depends on himself alone, and of which he only is to reap the whole profit or glory.
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Politics
For the roots of plants are analogous to what is called the mouth in an animal, being the organ by which food is admitted.
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On Youth & Old Age, Life & Death
Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.
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Poetics
Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.
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Nicomachean Ethics
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Nicomachean Ethics
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
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Nicomachean Ethics
Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions.
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Poetics
Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.
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Politics
Once dialogue had come in, Nature herself discovered the appropriate measure. For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial.
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Poetics
Man is armed with craft and courage, which, untamed by justice, he will most wickedly pervert, and become at once the most impious and the fiercest of monsters.
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Politics
For in man, and in man alone, owing to is erect attitude, the upper part of the body is turned toward the upper part of the universe; while in other animals it is turned neither to this nor to the lower aspects, but in a direction midway between the two.
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On Youth & Old Age, Life & Death
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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Nicomachean Ethics
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Whoever, therefore, is unfit to live in a commonwealth, is above or below humanity.
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Politics
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.
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Rhetoric
The law itself is accused of iniquity, and impeached, like the orators of Athens when they have persuaded the assembly to pass unjust decrees.
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Politics
Novices in the art attain to finish of diction and precision of portraiture before they can construct the plot.
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Poetics
Nor does the argument about the contrary seem to be well urged. It does not follow, they say, because pain is an evil, that pleasure is a good; for the opposite to evil may be not a good, but some other evil, and both evil and good may stand opposed to something which is neither one nor the other.
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Nicomachean Ethics
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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Politics