Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
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Source: The Nicomachean ethics
Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]
“Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.”
Source: Politics
“Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.”
“Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?”
Source: Problems ...
“Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action”
Source: Poetics
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
Source: The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
“If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.”
“The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.”
“The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.”
Source: Rhetoric
“A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.”
“Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.”
Source: Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
“I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.”
Source: The Metaphysics
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
Source: Aristotle, the Physics
“The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.”
Source: The Rhetoric of Aristotle
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“All men are alike when asleep.”
Source: The Eudemian Ethics