QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-2

1. 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."
2. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
3. "A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art."
4. No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
5. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
6. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
7. Bad men are full of repentance.
8. "A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must . . . be appropriate."
9. "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
10. "Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty."
11. The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
12. It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
13. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
14. "People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just."
15. In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
16. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
17. Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
18. "Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
19. "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."
20. "Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
21. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
22. The end of labor is to gain leisure.
23. How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms?
24. "Art not only imitates nature, but also completes it deficiencies."
25. Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.