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“Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.”

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Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Written by Aristotle, this work delves into the nature of ethical conduct, examining the concept of virtue and its role in human flourishing. more

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Aristotle

Aristotle, a renowned Greek philosopher, is one of the founders of Western philosophy. His thoughts covered a wide range of fields, including ethics, logic, politics, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.”

Way May Seems Certain Wealth Standards Very Good Affected Possessed Disposition Tainted Penetration Insolent Overbearing

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“Wit is well-bred insolence.”

Wells Wit Insolence

Author:Aristotle

“The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.”

Ifs Men Seems Brave Coward Brave Man Foolhardy

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.”

Mean Said Names Ought Honor Aim Peculiar Ambitious Craving

Author:Aristotle

“If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.”

Ifs Should Existence Contrary If Then

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Turns Parent Poverty Failing Crime Policy Source Revolution Birth Neglect Birth Control

Author:Aristotle

“For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.”

May Character Moral Lays Carrie Speakers Sovereign Persuasion Credible Efficacy Moral Character Probity

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.”

Men Ignorance Ought Errors Wicked Unjust Wicked Man

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”

Men Way One Way Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

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