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  • The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

    Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.43, Aeterna Press
  • Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

    Aristotle (2012). “Rhetoric”, p.84, Courier Corporation
  • Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

  • Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  • Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

  • The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

  • Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

    Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”
  • Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.112, Aristotle
  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

    "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,
  • A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1730, Princeton University Press
  • Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

  • Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

  • The law is reason, free from passion.

    "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,
  • Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

    Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65
  • And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.279, Wordsworth Editions
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Aristotle

  • Born: 384 BC
  • Died: 322 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher