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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
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
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
“He who hath many friends hath none.”
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
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
Source: On Man in the Universe
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
“Change in all things is sweet.”
Source: Gorgias and Rhetoric
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
Source: Rhetoric
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“Bad men are full of repentance.”
Source: The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle
Source: Politics
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
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
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Source: Eudemian Ethics
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
Source: Politics
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens