It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
