Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
politics appearance religion morality
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
philosophy truth music
Philosophy can make people sick.
philosophy
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
philosophy life art teachers greek
All men by nature desire knowledge.
philosophy knowledge
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled
politics
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
politics peace war peacemaking
The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.
science scientists aristotle
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
life wisdom pleasure
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
anger
character
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
poverty revolution crime society
When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch.. Such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.
democracy law
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
equality men democracy
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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