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Simplicity in popular science

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Rhetoric II.1395b27

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The wish of every legislator

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Nicomachean Ethics II.1103b4

The life of money-making

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Nicomachean Ethics I.1096a5

Defending with limbs vs. defending with speech

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Rhetoric I.1355b1

The good and the well is thought to reside in the function

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Nicomachean Ethics I.1097b25

Convincing impossibility and unconvincing possibility

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Poetics 1461b11

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