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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

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

Bad men are full of repentance.

Quote by Aristotel about bad, bad luck, 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

Change in all things is sweet.

Quote by Aristotel about opinion, change, things

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Quote by Aristotel about happiness

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, good, good luck

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Quote by Aristotel about society, need, god

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Quote by Aristotel about poetry, poets, art, magic