Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For 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
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the… — 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
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. — 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
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — 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
