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Aristotle: top 300 quotes
300 definitions
The Accidental (n.) is like a frost at midsummer, the accidental is that which comes about neither always, nor by necessity, nor usually, (and thus allows for no science).
Ambition (n.) is the golden mean between sloth and greed.
Politics (n.) is a form founded upon the distinction between the private and the public sphere.
Politics (n.) is those things concerned with the polis and the philosophy of human affairs with happiness as its aim.
Fear (n.) is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Justice (n.) is giving equal measures to equals and unequal measures to unequals.
Justice (n.) is the intermediate position between doing injustice and suffering it.
Justice (n.) is the cause of good to the community.
Justice's (n.) virtue consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Memory (n.) is the scribe of the soul.
Imagination (n.) is a sort of faint perception.
Imagination (n.) is different from either perceiving or thinking but involves both perceptual sensation and judgment.
Character (n.) is the most effective means of persuasion.
Character (n.) is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Character (n.) is determined by choice, not opinion.
Law (n.) is a form of order, and good law must necessarily mean good order.
Law (n.) is reason free from passion.
Law (n.) is best constructed as to leave as little as possible to the decision of those who judge.