All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Quote by Aristotel about people, habits, chance, reason, nature, human imperfections
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127 quotes by Aristotel
Aristotel - greek Philosopher
Also called: Aristote.
Life period: 384 BC - 322 BC
Origin country: Greece
Biography: Was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.
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.
Quote by Aristotel about rightness, purpose, power, people, time
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Quote by Aristotel about people, animals, justice, law, man
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Quote by Aristotel about shame, olderness, youth, age, old
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, people
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Quote by Aristotel about present
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Quote by Aristotel about opinion, character
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Quote by Aristotel about democracy, respect, man
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Quote by Aristotel about democracy, man
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.
Quote by Aristotel about people, happiness, man, life
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Quote by Aristotel about dignity
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Quote by Aristotel about dignity
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Quote by Aristotel about education, prosperity
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Quote by Aristotel about law
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, good, good luck
