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Aristotle

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.


— Aristotle


#friends #honor #our #piety #requires

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.


— Aristotle


#pleasures #regard #temperance

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.


— Aristotle


#because #brings #evil #fear #generality

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.


— Aristotle


#bodies #composed #inhabiting #love is #single

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.


— Aristotle


#every #fancies #find #last #life

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.


— Aristotle


#anxious #certain #character #citizens #disposition

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.


— Aristotle


#apprehend #enough #nature #participates #reason

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.


— Aristotle


#men #utter #young #young men

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.


— Aristotle


#actions #become #brave #just #performing

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.


— Aristotle


#equal #equals #inferiors #may #mind






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Did you know about Aristotle?

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world movement and other elements of Aristotelian thought. The final cause is its purpose or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. Politics

In addition to his works on ethics which address the individual Aristotle addressed the city in his work titled Politics.

All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs] Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology.

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