Tag: Aristotle
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle
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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.
Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle