在名人的鼓舞下记单词—亚里斯多德篇
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亚里斯多德与苏格拉底、柏拉图一起被广泛认为是西方哲学的奠基者，他的哲学思想深深影响人类长达两千多年，是整个人类历史上的伟大哲学家。马克思曾称亚里斯多德是“古希腊哲学家中最博学的人物”，恩格斯称他是“古代的黑格尔”。让我们在倾听这样一个历史巨人的教诲时， 不经意地记住一些单词吧！或许你可能会发现原来这些单词如此容易，这是因为你的思想被打动了。 1.A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. 2.Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Purpose:目的 3.Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. 4.Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. 5.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. 6.Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. 7.Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. 8.Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. 9.Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. 10.In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. 11.It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. 12.Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. 13.Nature does nothing in vain. 14.No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. 15.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. 16.Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. 17.Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. 18.Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. 19.Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. 20.The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. 21.The energy of the mind is the essence of life. 22.The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. 23.The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. 24.The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. 25.The whole is more than the sum of its parts. 26.The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. 27.The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. 28.We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. 29.What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. 30.Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. 31.Wit is educated insolence. |
