For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law & justice he is the worst.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — 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