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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


#also #angry #feels #grounds #length

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.


— Aristotle


#deserving #dignity #does #honors #possessing

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.


— Aristotle


#constitution #state

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.


— Aristotle


#aim #all things #art #been #choice

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.


— Aristotle


#acts #become #brave #comes #doing

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.


— Aristotle


#day #does #happy #make #man

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.


— Aristotle


#condition #existence #friendless #having #other

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.


— Aristotle


#aiming #also #always #because #beyond

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.


— Aristotle


#different #different means #different ways #forms #government

The end of labor is to gain leisure.


— Aristotle


#gain #labor #leisure






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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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