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"To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls."

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (pp. 2666-2667). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

"For law is order, and good law is good order; but a very great multitude cannot be orderly: to introduce order into the unlimited is the work of a divine power—of such a power as holds together the universe."

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 2637). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

It is also disputed whether the happy man will need friends or not.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 2420). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

For ‘exist’ has many senses.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 2188). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

if these have such opinions and express these views about the truth, is it not natural that beginners in philosophy should lose heart? For to seek the truth would be to follow flying game.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 2006). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

For the process of becoming is from the non-existent to the existent, and that of perishing is back again from the existent to the non-existent.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 1828). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

Now that the action is the conclusion is clear. But the premisses of action are of two kinds, of the good and of the possible.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 1736). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

"Yet there are some who, while they allow that every animal exists and was generated by nature, nevertheless hold that the heaven was constructed to be what it is by chance and spontaneity; the heaven, in which not the faintest sign of haphazard or of disorder is discernible!"

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 1585). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

With regard to the blackbird, however, its first brood is killed by inclemency of weather (for it is the earliest of all birds to breed), but the second brood it usually succeeds in rearing.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 1372). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.

We must now treat of youth and old age and life and death. We must probably also at the same time state the causes of respiration as well, since in some cases living and the reverse depend on this.

Aristotle; house, knowledge. Aristotle: The Complete Works (p. 1202). knowledge house. Kindle Edition.