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“The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.”

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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

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“The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.”

Littles Water Democracy Greater Quantity

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

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

“We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.”

Littles Ends Action Courses Cases Particular Masters Habit Increase Our Actions Infirmity Commencement

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.”

Should Doe Law Certain Divine Degrees Universal Intercourse Compact

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.”

Ifs Law Purpose Justice Cases Judging Circumstances Mark Abandon Discretion Adapted

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.”

Men May Law Three Hurt Dues Honestly Every Man

Author:Aristotle

“All learning is derived from things previously known.”

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Wickedness is nourished by lust.”

Lust Wickedness

Author:Aristotle

“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.”

Mean Two Given Chance Moral Cases Virtue Example Morality Tasks Vices Circles Excess Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.”

Ifs Wells Play Character Together Effects Produce Speech Essentials Finished Tragic Plot Strings Incidents Expressive Diction Playwriting

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics