Greek philosopher (384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
All learning is derived from things previously known.
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The Nicomachean Ethics
Whether government be a good or a bad thing, it is fair that men of equal abilities and virtues should equally share in it; that they should receive the advantage of it as their right, or bear the burden of it as their duty.
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Politics
Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.
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Politics
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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Nicomachean Ethics
But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.
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Politics
A family, to be complete, must consist of freemen and slaves; and as every complex object naturally resolves itself into simple elements, we must consider the elements of a family--the master and servant, the husband and wife, the father and children; what all of these are in themselves, and what are the relations which they naturally and properly bear to each other.
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Politics
Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.
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Poetics
It is easy to have some knowledge about honey, wine, and hellebore, of cautery and the use of the knife; but how they should be applied for restoring health, to whom and when, is no less a matter than to be a physician.
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Nicomachean Ethics
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Politics
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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Nicomachean Ethics
The necessity of perpetuating the species, forms the combining principle between males and females; a principle independent of choice or design, and alike incident to animals and to plants, which are all naturally impelled to propagate their respective kinds.
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Politics
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
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attributed, Day's Collacon
Concerning things which exist or will exist inevitably, or which cannot possibly exist or take place, no counsel can be given.
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Rhetoric
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point of 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.
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Poetics
The Plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy.
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Poetics
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.
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Nicomachean Ethics
Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks to amend.
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On the Generation of Animals
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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Politics
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.
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Rhetoric
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
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Rhetoric