The Ethics of Aristotle, Svazek 1

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Strana 379 - Morality admits no discoveries More than three thousand years have elapsed since the composition of the Pentateuch ; and let any man, if he is able, tell me in what important respect the rule of life has varied since that distant period. Let the Institutes of Menu be explored with the same view ; we shall arrive at the same conclusion.
Strana 336 - We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
Strana 186 - ... hurtful and useless. Did you never observe the narrow intelligence flashing from the keen eye of a clever rogue — how eager he is, how clearly his paltry soul sees the way to his end ; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eyesight is forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in proportion to his cleverness ? Very true, he said.
Strana 186 - But what if there had been a circumcision of such natures in the days of their youth; and they had been severed from the leaden weights, as I may call them, with which they are born into the world, which hang on to sensual pleasures, such as those of eating and drinking, and drag them down and turn the vision of their souls about the things that are below — if, I say, they had been released from them and turned round to the truth, the very same faculty in these very same persons would have seen...
Strana 72 - ARISTOTLE ON FALLACIES; OR, THE SOPHISTICI ELENCHI. With a Translation and Notes by EDWARD POSTE, MA, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 8vo.
Strana 189 - I do not mean to affirm that the description which I have given of the soul and her mansions is exactly true — a man of sense ought hardly to say that. But I do say that, inasmuch as the soul is shown to be immortal, he may venture to think, not improperly or unworthily, that something of the kind is true.
Strana 360 - Caesar should adopt you, no one could endure your arrogance; and if you know that you are the son of Zeus, will you not be elated? Yet we do not so; but since these two things are mingled in the generation of man, body in common with the animals, and reason and intelligence in common with the gods, many incline to this kinship, which is miserable and mortal; and some few to that which is divine and happy.
Strana 359 - ... you have begotten children, will you introduce them also into the state with the habit of plucking their hairs? A beautiful citizen, and senator and rhetorician. We ought to pray that such young men be born among us and brought up. Do not so, I entreat you by the Gods, young man: but when you have once heard these words, go away and say to yourself, "Epictetus has not said this to me; for how could he? but some propitious...
Strana 186 - ... the good. Very true. And this is conversion ; and the art will be how to accomplish this as easily and completely as possible ; not implanting eyes, for they exist already, but giving them a right direction, which they have not. Yes, he said, that may be assumed. And hence while the other qualities seem to be akin to the body, being infused by habit and exercise and not originally innate, the virtue of wisdom is part of a divine essence, and has a power which is everlasting, and by this conversion...
Strana 100 - this truly beautiful description of a thoroughly successful life, as imagined by a Greek : " That man is happy and songworthy by the skilled, who, victorious by might of hand or vigour of foot, achieves the greatest prizes with daring and with strength, and who in his lifetime sees his son, while yet a youth, crowned with Pythian wreaths. The brazen heaven, it is true, is inaccessible to him, but, whatsoever joy we race of mortals taste, he reaches to the furthest voyage.

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